Askari Monument

The Askari Monument in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a memorial to the askari soldiers who fought in the British Carrier Corps in World War I. It is situated at the focal point of indirect between Samora Avenue and Maktaba Street, a place that allegedly additionally denotes the correct focus of downtown Dar. It was disclosed in 1927. The primary component of the landmark is "The Askari", a bronze statue of a trooper. It was acknowledged in the United Kingdom by British stone carver James Alexander Stevenson, who worked for Westminster's Morris Bronze Founders. Stevenson marked the statue with pen name". Before being sent to Dar es Salaam, the statue was shown for some time at the Royal Academy, getting basic acclaim.

The warrior has a rifle with a blade pointed towards the Dar es Salaam harbor. The statue remains on a platform. On the tight sides of the platform are plaques with a commitment in Swahili Arabic and Latin content and English; on the wide sides of the platform are 2 pictorial plaques indicating battling African fighters and the bearer Corps. The landmark in Dar es Salaam has a place with a gathering of three Askari Monuments that were altogether divulged that year in ious parts of what was then British East Africa: the other two are at Mombasa and Nairobi.