In honour of the King’s African Rifles and the Carrier Corps. “The Askari” of the 1927 is This is to the memory of the Native African troops who fought: To the Carriers who were the feet and hands of the army: And to all other men who served and died for their king and country in Eastern Africa in the Great War 1914-1918. If you fight for your country, even if you die, your sons will remember your name.
there used to be another statue, namely that of German explorer and army major Hermann Wissmann, governor of German East Africa in the late 19th century. The statue of the Wissmann Monument, unveiled in 1911.
This Askari Monument replaced that of another statue of a German explorer and army Major Hermann von Wissmann’s, which was located here. Wissmann was the governor of German East Africa in the late 19th century. When the British landed in Dar es Salaam in 1916, they demolished Wissmann’s statue alongside that of Karl Peters’ and Otto von Bismarck’s.
Flexible and modern environment
The monument is one of three built in 1927 across British East Africa. The others are in Mombasa and Nairobi. The Askari Monument faces the ocean. This marks the direction British troops entered the city on September 3, 1916.
