Before the letters fell to the ground in neglect, before the weeds that obscure it from view died, before the garbage piled up in front and the political graffiti appeared on the unpainted concrete wall, the words that stood alone on a barren hill on the outskirts of Dakar read in French "Monument to the African Renaissance." This is Naomi's Africa.



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