ABSTRACT
Freedom Park aims to honour and commemorate our liberation struggle and humanity. African creative arts played a crucial role in precolonial communities, through the struggle against imperialism and colonial exploitation, and up to and beyond independence, holdingthe point position between social memory, collective experience and projected future. As African countries won their independence, Africa's creative artists seized and reclaimed space. These new nations provided inspiration, venues and audiences for the vision of social transformation that their creative arts expressed. Over time, independent Africa developed its own arts networks: music and film festivals, cultural conferences, museums and publishing houses. The conscious and creative act of revolution forms the foundation of liberation culture—in southern Africa and the world.
