In conjunction with the 'Black Roots' festival (29 November - 3 December)
being held on Gorée Island in Senegal, UNESCO is launching a web based
"virtual visit" to the 'House of Slaves' (to view the virtual visit, go to:
http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/.) "This infamous spot is now a
universal shrine, where all of us, from every continent, may come and
commemorate, in sorrow, the tragedy once inflicted by human beings like us
on so many of our own kind." declared UNESCO's Director General, Koïchiro
Matsuura, in a message for the event. Listed on UNESCO's World Heritage
register since 1978, Gorée Island was the point of departure for hundreds of
thousands of African men, women and children sold and shipped to the New
World.
A joint initiative of the UNESCO Dakar Office and the Organization's
Information Society Division, in collaboration with other UNESCO's Services
and Forut's Dakar Media Centre, this Virtual Visit is a unique experience
for internet users. The 'House of Slaves' can be visited on-line, through
photos, texts and videos. Currently in English and French, this multimedia
production will also be available shortly in Wolof and Japanese.
To view the virtual visit, go to: http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/
(...or, shameless plug, see my-- brief-- review of the site at
http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/comment/rhegoree.html)
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