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| Title: | Monuments of power: the North Korean origin of nationalist monuments in Namibia and Zimbabwe |
| Author: | Hoog, Tycho van der A. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Issue: | 74 |
| Pages: | 86 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African Studies Collection (ISSN 1876-0198) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | African Studies Centre |
| ISBN: | 9789054481775 |
| Geographic terms: | Namibia Zimbabwe North Korea |
| Subjects: | nationalism monuments heroes national liberation movements historiography socialism |
| External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/75067 |
| Abstract: | Scattered across southern Africa, impressive North Korean monuments celebrate the rise of young, independent nations. Freed from the shackles of colonialism or white settler rule, many southern African states are loyal customers of the North Korean state-owned enterprise Mansudae Art Studio, a firm responsible for the propaganda of the reigning Kim dynasty. In an extraordinary fashion, this mode of Afro-DPRK cooperation merges African nationalism with North Korean socialist realism. Monuments of Power compares the National Heroes' Acres of Namibia and Zimbabwe to the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in North Korea, thus providing a window to explore the largely unknown support offered by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to African liberation movements. This historical background is paramount to understand the influence of the DPRK on post-colonial public history in Africa. This book will not only interest African Studies specialists working on the liberation wars in Africa, it is also relevant to scholars in Korean Studies examining North Korea's international ties and authors in the field of heritage studies. |
