Ghana has been allocated one acre of space at the Museum of African Liberation currently under construction in Harare, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has disclosed.
The he space would be dedicated to telling the story of Ghana’s historic contribution to the African liberation agenda and Pan-Africanism.
President Mnangagwa announced during a bilateral talk with President John Dramani Mahama at Peduase Lodge, revealing that he had dispatched a special envoy to Ghana in March 2023 to deliver a personal invitation to participate in the project.
The museum, an initiative aimed at documenting and celebrating Africa’s liberation history through African eyes and African narratives, is on track for completion by 2027, President Mnangagwa said.
“Your acre is there, preserved for you,” he told President Mahama, in remarks that drew on decades of solidarity between the two countries that stretched back to Ghana providing military training to Zimbabwe’s liberation fighters from as far back as 1964.
President Mnangagwa said the importance of Africans telling their own stories through their own lenses could not be overstated, and that the museum was a deliberate effort to ensure that the continent’s liberation history was documented and preserved on African terms rather than filtered through outside perspectives.
Ghana’s place in that story, he said, was not a matter of courtesy but of historical fact. Beyond the military training it provided, Ghana had sent doctors, judges, pilots, university lecturers and teachers to Zimbabwe in its early years, and Ghanaian professionals had left lasting marks on the country’s judiciary, diplomatic service and academic institutions, a legacy he said Zimbabwe had not forgotten and did not intend to forget.
Richard Aniagyei, ISD
