TCAMOEA will serve as a vital space for remembrance + education + reconciliation

GHANA NEWS - In 2015, a Queens activist who made history as the first African American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean is leveraging his humanitarian credentials to advocate for an unprecedented memorial institution, proposing the establishment of the Central African Museum of Enslaved Africans in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, during the UNGA80.  

Soualiga Newsday - Inspired by a single, resonant word from Pope Leo XIV – "Unity" – offered during the Roman Catholic Jubilee Year of Sports – Pilgrims of Hope, Victor Mooney is now channeling that profound guidance into a monumental global initiative.

During the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly, Mooney is passionately rallying international support for the proposed Central African Museum of Enslaved Africans in Equatorial Guinea. The West-Central Africa region had the largest forced migration of any ethnicity.

EINPresswire.com -- American rower proposes the Central African Museum of Enslaved Africans in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Inspired by a single, resonant word from Pope Leo XIV – "Unity" – offered during the Roman Catholic Jubilee Year of Sports – Pilgrims of Hope, General Audience this summer, Victor Mooney of Queens, is now channeling that profound guidance into a monumental global initiative. 

EINPresswire.com -- Victor Mooney, the Goree Challenge rower who has retraced one of the harrowing routes of the transatlantic slave trade (The Middle Passage) on a fourth try, is set to embark on an inaugural visit to Belgium this month with a decisive goal: to repatriate a significant artwork depicting the brutal era of the Congo Free State.

He will be continuing his journey to Germany for the second leg of retrieving invaluable pieces of artwork, then fly to Equatorial Guinea. 

This initiative is intended to serve as a powerful symbol of healing, heritage, and hope for the Central African nations of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, and their former colonial powers. The ownership of the artwork irrevocably outlined as the property of these African nations. 

UN Journal - Victor Mooney's decades-long commitment to humanitarian causes, was highlighted during the unveiling ceremony in New York, performed by H.E. Mr. Zéphyrin Maniratanga, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Burundi to the United Nations and then-Chair of the Africa Group for the month of May. 

In Seoul, Korea, at the 2024 Korea–Africa Summit, he presented a symbolic stone