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Senegal on Saturday unveiled a colossal statue during a lavish ceremony amid reports of criticism over the monument's construction at a time when the western African nation is struggling financially.
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It was too comical not to share.
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So North Korea now spans two continents?In exchange for the money to build the statue, North Korea received a piece of Senegalese land, Abrassart said.
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I demand this statue be included in Civ 5 as a wonder of the world.Comment
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All that bronze will turn green in a couple weeks.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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No.Comment
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All that chocolate will melt in their mouths in a couple weeks.Comment
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But not in their hands!I'm consitently stupid- Japher
I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- NedComment
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The statue has divided opinion in a country where half the population lives below the poverty line.
Some Muslim scholars have called the monument idolatrous.
On the eve of the celebrations, the Reuters news agency quoted a leading imam, Massamba Diop, as telling worshippers at a mosque in the capital: "We have issued a fatwa urging Senegal's imams this Friday to read the holy Koran in the mosques simply to ask Allah to preserve us from the punishment this monument of shame risks bringing on Senegal."
The statue has been mired in controversy from the outset.
President Wade - who at 83 has announced he will seek re-election in 2012 - had to apologise to Senegal's Christian minority after comparing the monument to Jesus Christ.
Its architect also said he had received complaints about the woman's naked legs.
However, its supporters stood by the project.
Full article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8601382.stmBlahComment
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Maybe it isn't that big, maybe they are really small flags?Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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And Hobbits
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What's missing is for the man to look like Michael Jackson and for him to be holding the child over a balcony
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Yeah, but white guys like Jackson don't represent Africa so well
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Yes, indeed. When I think of Africa, I think of shady land deals, overbearing rulers and squandered money. After I think of a fourteen-year-old boy with an AK standing guard over a mountain of contraband, that is.Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika praised Wade for constructing a monument that represents Africa.
"This monument does not belong to Senegal," he said. "It belongs to the African people wherever we are."Comment
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Its good to see African countries can aspire to a whole new kind of crazy besides regular stupid rape/genocide/slavery/corruption crazy! North Korea was interesting but being the only show in town they got a bit lazy.
The African century
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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What's the over under for how long it takes for terrorists to destroy it?It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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