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Official Visit of the Chairman of
UNESCO's Executive Board to Senegal
Dakar, 15 - 18 September 2004
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UNESCO official urges protection of Gorée
Island
At the slave house |
Gorée, Senegal (PANA) - UNESCO executive committee chairman
Hans-Heinrich Wrede stressed the responsibility Friday here, of
the international community in the preservation of Gorée
Island, which was declared a world heritage by the UN agency.
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this island," Wrede declared during a visit to the Slave House
in Goree, where West Africans were held captive before their shipment
to the Americas.Wrede was visibly moved as the Curator of the infamous
slave post just off Dakar, Joseph Ndiaye recounted the suffering
of slaves in transit at Goree. |
Signing of the visitor's book
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Front of the 'gate of one way trip'
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"This very sad story should teach us a lesson, but we should
also learn a positive lesson so that the international can make
a new trip of solidarity, sociacommunityl justice and respect
of human rights," he urged.
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At the school of girls "maison d'éducation Mariama
Bâ" |
At the woman museum 'Henriette Bathily' |
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