As North Korea goes to war or straight to hell, some might forget that in April this year, a fantastic monument was perpetrated upon an unwitting public in Dakar. And lil' ol' Kim had a hand in it.
Salient facts:
Cost: $27 million
Provenance: Concept and design by President Abdoulaye Wade
Execution: North Korea
Ownership: Wade would like 35% of all ticket sales since it's his Intellectual Property after all
I have no idea how one would do anything with this retrospectively, but it seemed too good and too topical not to bring up in these trying times for family businesses.
Here's Wikipedia on the African Renaissance Monument; and this is the BBC (Jesse Jackson was there).
