A colossal monument is planned for a hill overlooking the Atlantic in Dakar, capital of Africa's western-most nation, Senegal. The Senegalese president says the "Monument to the African ...

The African Renaissance Monument towers above the Senegal's capital city, Dakar. The 52-meter bronze statue, showing a man, woman and child, has been been the source of significant controversy ...

Built by North Koreans, the new monument in Dakar, Senegal, is larger than the Statue of Liberty. Take a tour with WSJ's Christina Passariello months before the official opening in April.

That began to change in 2006, when then-President Abdoulaye Wade commissioned a state-owned North Korean company to build the African Renaissance Monument, a 160-foot-tall statue of a muscular ...

Senegal inaugurated its giant "African Renaissance" monument on Saturday, brushing aside complaints that the $28 million personal project of President Abdoulaye Wade was a waste of money and un ...

The West African country of Senegal is often called the “gateway to Africa” and there’s no entrance more amazing than the soaring African Renaissance Monument, which tops a hill overlooking ...

The African Renaissance Monument to mark Senegal’s 50 years of independence is pictured during its inauguration ceremony on April 3, 2010 in Dakar. Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo ...

The African Renaissance Monument, a towering 171ft bronze edifice perched atop the Collines des Mamelles just outside Dakar, Senegal, stands as Africa's tallest statue.

The Monument of the African Renaissance is a 164-foot giant that juts out above one of the 328-foot tall twin hills of the capital (Les Mamelles). It defies New York's Statue of Liberty (151 feet ...

The nearly complete bronze statue dubbed the Monument of the African Renaissance in November. It's impossible to miss Senegal's new 160-foot African renaissance monument.