Drums of Our Father's Monument

Dangriga


This monument in the traffic circle south of Dangriga's main bus station underscores the importance of percussion in Garifuna (and Belizean) life, with its large bronze representations of ritual dügü drums and sisira (maracas). It was sculpted by Stephen Okeke, a Nigerian resident of Dangriga.


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