A new piece of contemporary art has appeared on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, and reinterprets a famous photograph of a Baptist preacher and a European missionary.
A large statue of Malawian freedom fighter John Chilembwe has been unveiled in London’s historic Trafalgar Square. Chilembwe, a pan Africanist who inspired
On the empty Fourth Plinth of London's Trafalgar Square, Samson Kambalu's post-colonial artwork "Antelope" was revealed on Wednesday.
John Chilembwe, a Baptist preacher and educator who led an insurrection against British colonial control in Nyasaland, now Malawi, in 1915, is shown in the bronze resin sculpture.
On John Chilembwe Day, which commemorates his death at the hands of colonial police and signals the start of the movement for Malawian independence, he is remembered in Malawi.
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