10/06/2025
Zimbabwe, Cuba sign MoU for transfer of Military Equipment to Museum of African Liberation
The Institute of African Knowledge (INSTAK) and the National Council of National Heritage of the Republic of Cuba on 10 June 2025 signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the transfer of Military equipment used in the momentous Battle of Cuito Cuanavale to the Museum of African Liberation in Harare.
The MoU was signed in Havana, Cuba by the Chief Executive Officer of INSTAK, Ambassador Kwame Muzawazi, and the Director-General of the National Council of National Heritage, Ms Sonja Perez Mojena.
The agreement formalises how the two parties will coordinate collaboration in the Pan-African Memorial Park and the Museum of African Liberation, which are projects being implemented by INSTAK.
Present at the landmark signing ceremony were Brigadier-General Million Ndlovu of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), and Cuba’s Vice-Minister of Culture, Ms Lizette Martinez Luzardo.
After the ceremony, Ms Perez Mojena said Africa and the Caribbean island had an unbreakable bond, sealed by the blood split by Cuban fighters in support of the continent’s liberation.
She said Afro-Cuban unity had helped defeat one of the greatest enemies of humanity in the form of colonialism and apartheid.
Ms Perez Mojena said the MoU would help facilitate the preservation of this important history for all generations to come. More specifically, the outcome of the agreement would ensure both the people of Cuba and Africa appreciate better who they were and where they had come from.
She said Cuba and Africa would always be friends, and that her country was highly appreciative of the work INSTAK was doing to deepen ties while recording and disseminating important knowledge at the same time.
The Museum of African Liberation is the centrepiece of Liberation City, a 101-hecatre multipurpose development being spearheaded by INSTAK in Zimbabwe’s capital city.