African Museum a heritage-based broadcast: Minister Muswere
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswere yesterday hailed the Museum of African Liberation as heritage-based broadcasting that documents African history and narrative from pre-colonial period to date from a continental perspective.
He said President Mnangagwa’s vision to construct the Museum of African Liberation in Harare to document African history would also go a long way in uniting the African continent.
Dr Muswere said this yesterday after a familiarisation tour of the Museum of African Liberation in Harare.
“This is a familiarisation tour to appreciate the great work under the leadership of His Excellency, President Mnangagwa who has taken a lead to document, unite Africa and be able to construct Africa’s museum which will also have a lot of impact on the way Africa will interact with the rest of the world,” he said.
“The familiarisation tour is important for us as a Ministry because currently the focus is heritage-based broadcasting, the museum will also take into account the pre-colonial time, the liberation movement participation to free Africa, the different stages we went through as a continent, where Africa was free from suppression from other colonial powers to the time when Africa worked together, inter Africa trade, there is also the slave trade period, dating back to the loss of Africa in terms of its human capital, capacity to rebuild and reshape the continental narrative.”
Dr Muswere noted that the documentation includes the partition of Africa by Western leaders at the Berlin Conference that was spearheaded by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to divide Africa among themselves.
He said there was due recognition of the contributions by other countries for the liberation of Africa such as Russia, China and Cuba among others and the setting up of the liberation committee chaired by the late Brigadier-General Hashim Mbita of Tanzania and other African countries such as Egypt and Algeria among others.
“So we believe this is part of heritage based broadcasting which is very important for us as a continent. It also takes care of the future plans, the achievement that we have managed to register as a continent post-colonial period, imperialism which continues to try and divide us as a continent, but also the key steps we have taken in order to achieve freedom and success,” he said.