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Viewing cable 08DAKAR649, PRESIDENT WADE'S MONUMENT TO THE REBIRTH OF AFRICA: LOOKING

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08DAKAR649 2008-06-05 12:48 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Dakar
VZCZCXRO2022
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMA RUEHMR RUEHPA RUEHRN RUEHTRO
DE RUEHDK #0649 1571248
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 051248Z JUN 08
FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0592
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 1127
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0354
RUEHLI/AMEMBASSY LISBON 0849
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 0024
INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE
RUEHLMC/MCC WASHDC
UNCLAS DAKAR 000649 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
DEPT FOR AF/W, AF/RSA, DRL AND INR/AA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL EAID EFIN PINS KDEM SG
SUBJECT: PRESIDENT WADE'S MONUMENT TO THE REBIRTH OF AFRICA: LOOKING 
FORWARD IN RETURN FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE? 
 
1.  (SBU) SUMMARY. In an effort to leave a legacy for himself that 
identifies with the glories of Africa's past achievements and even 
more with Africa's future, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has 
mobilized Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, a Senegalese architect and 
businessman, to arrange the construction of several monuments in 
Dakar, most importantly the "Monument of the African Renaissance." 
However, the circumstances of the deal with North Korean architects 
and builders for the $30m project are dubious, especially in an 
extremely poor country which is currently having difficulty feeding 
itself. END SUMMARY. 
 
MONUMENT OF THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE 
------------------------------------ 
 
2. (SBU) On 21 April, EMBOFFS met Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, President 
Abdoulaye Wade's architect and a successful businessman charged with 
being the creator and guardian of the President's monumental 
heritage, to enquire about the structure emerging from a hill along 
Dakar's western shore.  Construction of the new monument, called the 
"Monument of the African Renaissance," is already underway.  It is 
being built by a North Korean firm.  According to Goudiaby Atepa and 
the multicolored plan/blueprint of the monument, the west side of 
the monument facing the sea will have a foundation and statue made 
of a bronze and concrete alloy designed to withstand the relentless 
Senegalese wind, seawater, and sand.  The statue features a bare 
torsoed, muscular African man, with a child in his left arm and his 
right arm around the waist of a woman in African cloth draped 
halfway over her shoulders and body to her thighs in the style of a 
painting on an ancient Greek urn or perhaps a Soviet-era tribute to 
the masses.   The man and woman attempt to rise Rodin- or 
Michelangelo-like from uncut rock, but the statue is really 
socialist realist, at once heroic and sterile.  The visitor will 
enter from the seaside up stairs on either side of a fountain into a 
multistory building with a high-ceilinged space, a boutique, a 
museum, and a VIP lounge.  The lineage between the statue at the 
Place du Souvenir and the Monument to the African Renaissance is 
obvious: Goudiaby Atepa indicated that they are in contact with the 
foundation that administers the Statue of Liberty in the U.S. and 
wish to learn about its experience in the management of museums. 
 
WHO WILL PAY 
------------ 
 
3.  (SBU) Goudiaby Atepa said that Senegal would offer North Korea 
approximately USD 30 million worth of land for development in 
Almadies, the most expensive neighborhood in Dakar, in exchange for 
materials and construction and that North Korea could do anything it 
wanted with it, from developing to selling it.  This is another of 
the frequent examples of Wade assuming the role of the state in 
apportioning land, having already declared that he alone can 
negotiate and approve any projects along Senegal's coast, and, more 
recently, determining how vast the site will be.  EMBOFFS visited 
the site, in the very early stages of construction.  Two North 
Korean workers encountered at the site told us it would take two to 
three years to finish the monument.  An interesting sidebar to the 
financing arrangement is that fact that the North Korean gambit was 
resorted to only after an ill-conceived scheme to persuade African 
American sports and entertainment stars to back the project fizzled 
upon launch. 
 
COMMENT: CAN'T EAT A WHITE ELEPHANT DURING THE HUNGRY SEASON 
--------------------------------------------- - 
 
4.  (SBU) According to President Wade and his architectural 
spokesman this monument is supposed to represent Africa's rebirth 
and its future and will serve as a way out of the discourse that too 
often focuses on the wrongs inflicted on Africa in the past without 
reference to what contribution Africa and Africans can make to its 
own future.  However, trading some of the county's prime real estate 
in a non-transparent way to the world's most repressive regime to 
build a monument ostensibly in honor of Africa's future, but really 
a monument to the sitting President of the Republic, is nothing more 
than typical post-colonial African big-man politics akin to the late 
Ivorian President Felix Houphouet-Boigny's basilica.  It is east to 
question the wisdom of President Wade's decision to build what many 
regard as a white elephant at a time when many Senegalese are eating 
one meal a day due to the inexorable rise in food and fuel prices. 
 
SMITH