“The grand opening of the monument took place at the country’s largest educational institution, the University of Botswana… The monument was created from Botswana bronze by sculptor Francois Kotetse,” the statement said.
According to Sibiga, the dean of the Faculty of Humanities Thapelo Otlokhetswe during the event read out a translation of Shevchenko’s “Commandment” into the national language of Botswana – Setswana.
The minister noted that there are currently 1,384 monuments to Taras Shevchenko in the world, of which 128 are in 35 countries.
“The first Kobzar on African soil is about the globality of Shevchenko’s ideas, the timelessness of his words, the power of his thought, which after a century unites the Ukrainian people and the whole world around the universal values of freedom, justice, and national identity,” the diplomat added.
