Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

The imaginary monument

The proper size for a monument of revolution is 6 inches. This occurs to me as I look out from our Dakar lodgings and realize that I can see the Monument to the African Renaissance from a-a-a-all the way across the other side of the peninsula.

This grotesquery is, by irony rather than design, a most accurate tribute to Thabo Mbeki’s catchphrase.