Dr. Sam Nujoma - Windhoek, Namibia - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

The Independence Museum is located in the center of the capital of Namibia, Windhoek, and it carries a dramatic message of suffering along the way to the independence of the country.

In front of the building there is a big statue of Dr. Sam Nujoma, considered the father of modern Namibia.

It is perhaps 3x life-size and represents the historical figure dressed in a suite and holding a book - The Constitution of the Republic of Namibia - in his right hand. The whole statue is made of a metal league, perhaps bronze. Its placed on a plinth covered with small stones where an inscription presents Dr. Sam Nujoma as the founder and father of Namibia.

Accordingly to Wikipedia:

"Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma, (/nu?'jo?m?/; born 12 May 1929) is a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first President of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005. Nujoma was a founding member and the first president of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in 1960. Before 1960, SWAPO was known as the Ovambo People's Organisation (OPO). He played an important role as leader of the national liberation movement in campaigning for Namibia's political independence from South African rule. He established the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) in 1962 and launched a guerrilla war against the apartheid government of South Africa in August 1966 at Omugulugwombashe, beginning after the United Nations withdrew the mandate for South Africa to govern the territory. Nujoma led SWAPO during the lengthy Namibian War of Independence, which lasted from 1966 to 1989.

Nujoma became involved in anti-colonial politics during the 1950s. In 1959, he co-founded and served as the first president of the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO), a nationalist organization advocating an independent Namibia. In December 1958 he was an organizer of the Old Location resistance and was arrested and deported to Ovamboland. In 1960 he escaped and went into exile in Tanzania where he was welcomed by Julius Nyerere.

Namibia finally achieved independence from South Africa in 1990, holding its first democratic elections. SWAPO won a majority and Nujoma was elected as the country's first President on 21 March 1990. He was re-elected for two more terms in 1994 and 1999. Nujoma retired as SWAPO party president on 30 November 2007."

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