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Joshua Nkomo Statue
The statue of Joshua Nkomo is a monument to the Zimbabwean vice president Joshua Nkomo in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. The bronze statue was produced by the North Korean company Mansudae Art Studio and is erected at the intersection of Joshua Nkomo Street and 8th Avenue. The statue was unveiled 14 years after Nkomo's death on the country's Unity Day (22 December) in 2013, a date that coincided with the signing of the Unity Accord in 1987 between Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo which united the rival ZANU PF and ZAPU parties. On the same day, Main Street was officially renamed to Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport Mall was officially opened. In 2018, free Wi-Fi was installed at the statue for tourists who come to view the monument. Controversy Nkomo's statue was first erected in 2010 but was pulled down before its official unveiling after the Nkomo family expressed unhappiness with the dimensions of the initial pedestal. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansudae Art Studio
The Mansudae Art Studio is an art studio in Phyongchon District, Pyeongcheon District, Pyongyang, North Korea. It was founded in 1959, and it is one of the largest centers of art production in the world, at an area of over 120,000 square meters. The studio employs around 4,000 people, 1,000 of whom are artists picked from the best academies in North Korea. Most of its artists are graduates of Pyongyang University. The studio consists of 13 groups, including those for woodcuts, charcoal drawings, ceramics, embroidery and jewel paintings, among other things. The studio has produced many of North Korea's most important monuments, such as the Monument to Party Founding, Monument to the Founding of the Korean Workers Party, the Chollima Statue, and the Mansu Hill Grand Monument. Its foreign commercial division is known as the Mansudae Overseas Projects, Mansudae Overseas Project Group of Companies, which as of 2014 has created monuments for 18 African and Asian nations. All images of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
