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Kwame
Nkrumah
Mausoleum
building
in
Ghana
The
Kwame
Nkrumah
Mausoleum
and
memorial
park
is
located
in
downtown
Accra,
the
capital
of
Ghana.
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Kwame
Nkrumah
Mausoleum
Kwame
Nkrumah's
grave
inside
the
Kwame
Nkrumah
Memorial
in
Accra
It
is
dedicated
to
the
prominent
Ghanaian
President
Kwame
Nkrumah.
The
memorial
complex
was
dedicated
in
1992,
and
is
situated
on
the
site
of
the
former
British
colonial
polo
grounds
in
Accra.
The
mausoleum,
designed
by
Don
Arthur,
houses
the
bodies
of
Kwame
Nkrumah
and
his
wife
Fathia
Nkrumah.
The
building
is
meant
to
represent
an
upside
down
sword,
which
in
Akan
culture
is
a
symbol
of
peace.
The
mausoleum
is
clad
from
top
to
bottom
with
Italian
marble,
with
a
black
star
at
its
apex
to
symbolize
unity.
The
interior
boasts
marble
flooring
and
a
mini
mastaba
looking
marble
grave
marker,
surrounded
by
river-washed
rocks.
A
skylight
at
the
top
in
the
mausoleum
illuminates
the
grave.
The
mausoleum
is
surrounded
by
water,
a
symbol
of
life.
A
video
of
the
mausoleum
can
be
found
here.
See
also
Atta
Mills's
Mausoleum
at
Asomdwee
Park
in
Accra,
Ghana.
Agostinho
Neto's
Mausoleum
in
Luanda,
Angola.
Mausolée
(Pyramide)
du
Président
Mathieu
Kerekou,
Natitingou,
Benin.
Omar
Bongo's
Mausoleum
(A
replica
of
the
Mausoleum
of
Mohammed
V)
in
Franceville,
Gabon.
Léon
M'ba's
Memorial
Mausoleum
in
Libreville,
Gabon.
Mausoleum
of
Late
President
Levy
Mwanawasa,
Frederick
Chiluba
and
Michael
Sata
at
Embassy
Park
in
Lusaka,
Zambia.
Domoni
Mosque
Mausoleum
Indoor
inside
first
president
of
Comoros,
Ahmed
Abdallah's
Mausoleum.
Marien
Ngouabi's
mausoleum
in
Brazzaville,
The
Republic
of
Congo.
Pierre
Savorgnan
de
Brazza's
mausoleum
in
Brazzaville,
The
Republic
of
Congo.
Mausoleum
of
the
late
president
Felix
Houphouet-Boigny
in
Yamoussoukro,
Côte
d'Ivoire.
Laurent
Kabila's
mausoleum
in
Kinshasa,
The
Democratic
Republic
of
Congo.
Gamal
Abdel
Nasser
Mosque,
is
the
Mausoleum
of
Gamal
Abdel
Nasser,
in
Cairo,
Egypt.
Unknown
Soldier
Memorial
(Egypt)
Palm
Grove
Cemetery
,
Monrovia,
Liberia.
Centennial
Pavilion,
Mausoleum
of
the
Late
President
William
Tubman
in
Monrovia,
Montserrado,
Liberia.
Late
President
Eyadema's
Family
Mausoleum
in
Kara,
Togo.
Kamuzu
Banda
Mausoleum,
in
Lilongwe,
Malawi.
Dr.
Bingu
wa
Mutharika,
President
of
Malawi
built
a
mausoleum
in
which
his
late
first
wife
and
Bingu
himself
are
buried.
Meles
Zenawi's
grave
in
Holy
Trinity
Cathedral,
Addis
Ababa,
Ethiopia.
King
Sobhuza
II
Memorial
Park,
Lobamba,
Swaziland.
Julius
Nyerere's
mausoleum
in
Mwalimu
Nyerere
Museum
Centre,
Butiama,
Tanzania.
The
Heroes
Square,
Maputo,
Mozambique.
Amilcar
Cabral's
mausoleum
in
Bissau,
Guinea-Bissau.
Mausoleum
of
the
Late
President
of
Kenya
Mzee
Jomo
Kenyatta
in
Nairobi,
Kenya.
Jaramogi
Oginga
Odinga
Mausoleum,
Bondo,
Kenya.
Camayanne
Mausoleum
and
contains
the
tombs
of
Guinea
national
hero
Samori
Ture,
Sekou
Toure
and
Alfa
Yaya.
Nnamdi
Azikiwe's
Burial
Site
In
Onitsha,
Nigeria
.
Abubakar
Tafawa
Balewa's
tomb,
Bauchi,
Nigeria.
Mausoleum
of
Obafemi
Awolowo,
Ogun
State,
Nigeria.
Mausoleum
of
Sani
Abacha,
Kano,
Nigeria.
National
Heroes
Acre
in
Harare,
Zimbabwe.268501277
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