When I was browsing flight logs, some time back, what I remarked was, most of those representative images of each destination, which is often a monument, a known building or in rare cases an iconic land feature. What all those monuments and places shared were how old they were, most were built between the 60s and 70s. From Accra black star square, passing by Yamoussoukro cathedral to Kinshasa Leopold statue etc almost all african monumental buildings and places are old, which is wild given most of african urbanisation and construction boom happened in early 00s to mid 2010s while other places are still in middle of the boom. So what explains the lack of new monuments, it seems like a crucial avenue to neglect when you are building a city from the ground up.
Monuments men
Monuments men
Monuments men
When I was browsing flight logs, some time back, what I remarked was, most of those representative images of each destination, which is often a monument, a known building or in rare cases an iconic land feature. What all those monuments and places shared were how old they were, most were built between the 60s and 70s. From Accra black star square, passing by Yamoussoukro cathedral to Kinshasa Leopold statue etc almost all african monumental buildings and places are old, which is wild given most of african urbanisation and construction boom happened in early 00s to mid 2010s while other places are still in middle of the boom. So what explains the lack of new monuments, it seems like a crucial avenue to neglect when you are building a city from the ground up.