By Derick Tsimba

Government is in the process of constructing the envisaged Museum of African Liberation following its ground breaking ceremony by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

On its Facebook page the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services said President Mnangagwa was officiating a ground breaking ceremony of the Museum of African Liberation today in Harare.

“This morning we are in Warren Park where HE President @edmnangagwa is ground breaking at the site of the envisaged Museum of African Liberation. The Museum is a vital tool in telling the true story of Africa’s Liberation.

“Former Cabinet Minister and diplomat, Simbi Mubako, who is the chairperson of the INSTAK believes the Museum of African Liberation is an opportunity for educational and cultural diplomacy for all those countries that fought to win their freedom,” said the Ministry.

The Museum of African Liberation project is being spearheaded by pan-African think tank Institute of African Knowledge (INSTAK). INSTAK has been endorsed by several African States as it seeks to rekindle the Spirit of Pan-Africanism ‘Through Collaborative Efforts to Promote, Protect and Preserve the Legacy of the Revolution’.

Museum of African Liberation project is in line with the @_AfricanUnion 2021 theme ‘Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want’.

African states need to ensure the success of the project by assisting with historic documents, liberation war artifacts and oral history as the documentation of African liberation struggles begins. Ghana has said it will send all artifacts of the late great Kwame Nkrumah, the Harare Post has learnt.