American developers, with the support and guidance of Jackson Five’s Marlon, are building a slavery memorial in Nigeria. Which sounds like a worthwhile project, in theory. There will be a museum, a Jackson Five memorabilia collection, a five star hotel and, oh yes, I almost forgot….Ferris wheels and fried dough! Because the only way you can get tourists to come and learn about slavery for five minutes is to have a Tilt-A-Whirl and some mini-golf to hold their attention for an extended stay. Isn’t that sad?
Historians are upset about the project and feel that an amusement part is culturally insensitive. However, Nigerians are focused on the 150,000 new jobs that are to be created at the park over the next five years.
Though in the article it describes it more as a jackson 5 theme park that has a historical slave like tour thing as opposed to a memorial to the slave trade that is surrounded by amusement park. A lot of amusement parks have historical attractions. I mean it’s just a dumb idea As A Whole though
This has got bankruptcy written all over it.
Wow, Nigeria you say. I’ve been to Nigeria. I never really saw that country as needing an amusement park as much as say…. hope…. fair government….. peace. That’s a country where you have to fly to each city because driving through the country is NOT a good idea unless you want to be robbed and left for dead or robbed and killed. Either situation, you end up dead.
Wow, an amusement park in Nigeria. That’s so many kinds of perfect.
150,000 jobs to build / staff an amusement park in Nigeria? The numbers don’t seem right.
so this is where all that nigerian bank account money went…
cansupply new and used rides.