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Dear Hakeem
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on Africans
Dear Hakeem
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Hungarian couple preserve African heritage in six-acre museum
The Afrika Múzeum which was established in 1988 by Hungarian Game Hunter, Dr. Nagy Endre, seems
to be the first of its kind in the East and Central Europe , according to an African who spent close to three
months observing and analysing the museum which is said to attract more than two thousand visitors during
peak days.
culminating the birth of this historical museum in Balatonederics - a typical rural area in Hungary which is
about two hundred and fifty kilometres from the capital, Budapest .
The museum sits on a six-acre land, below the Beci Mountains with its fluke of nature running from
Kesthely Mountains to the west and up to Lake Balaton which itself a tourist attraction for millions every
summer.
According to Lady Katalin Endre, the museum was not fully opened to the public until after Endre's death.
Run every April to November, the museum has collections of rare African art works, authentic carvings,
elephant tucks, furniture, trophies, embalmed animals, books, and maps dating back from 1790.
"I was stunned with the huge number of collections from the Masai tribe," confessed Archie Bonka, a
Ghanaian who worked at the museum. He added that it was impossible to leave the museum without being
stuck by the memory for days.
Although some Africans who visited the place were said to be uncomfortable because, according to them,
these precious collections were looted; yet others gave a thumb up for Nagy and Katalin for preserving
African heritage in a six-acre land in a little known village.
Dismissing those who insisted that the art works may have been stolen, Bonka reasoned that it's a
worthwhile effort if such preservation could free the mind of certain people who think negatively about
Africa . "If pieces of our heritage can be so preserved for others who think negatively about our race in
order to free their mind of negative thinking, it definitely worth it."
With 1km mini jungle, a private zoo, mud thatched hut, three African gift shops, a Timbuktu Cafe House
that serves varieties of the "best" African coffee from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia; it's replica of a typical
African village. Even animals and birds like buffalo, goat, zebra, bush pig, cow, camel, donkey, antelope,
donkey, fowl, duck including people's favourite - a thirty-nine-year old African owl, are being kept in this
monumental Afrika Múzeum.
The Afrika Múzeum which was established in 1988 by Hungarian Game Hunter, Dr. Nagy Endre, seems
to be the first of its kind in the East and Central Europe , according to an African who spent close to three
months observing and analysing the museum which is said to attract more than two thousand visitors during
peak days.
- The museum, which was formerly
known as Tanzania House and Safari
Club for Hungarian Hunting lovers, is
now being managed by Katalin Endre,
the seventy-year-old widow, who took
up the challenge after the death of her
husband in 1994.
- Before his death, Nagy had instructed
his wife to bury part of his body in
Africa , a wish the latter successfully
carried out by burying part of the
remains in Meru-Tanzania.
- Dr.Nagy Endre took refuge in Africa
during the Second World War where
he was said to have found peace and
love.
culminating the birth of this historical museum in Balatonederics - a typical rural area in Hungary which is
about two hundred and fifty kilometres from the capital, Budapest .
The museum sits on a six-acre land, below the Beci Mountains with its fluke of nature running from
Kesthely Mountains to the west and up to Lake Balaton which itself a tourist attraction for millions every
summer.
According to Lady Katalin Endre, the museum was not fully opened to the public until after Endre's death.
Run every April to November, the museum has collections of rare African art works, authentic carvings,
elephant tucks, furniture, trophies, embalmed animals, books, and maps dating back from 1790.
"I was stunned with the huge number of collections from the Masai tribe," confessed Archie Bonka, a
Ghanaian who worked at the museum. He added that it was impossible to leave the museum without being
stuck by the memory for days.
Although some Africans who visited the place were said to be uncomfortable because, according to them,
these precious collections were looted; yet others gave a thumb up for Nagy and Katalin for preserving
African heritage in a six-acre land in a little known village.
Dismissing those who insisted that the art works may have been stolen, Bonka reasoned that it's a
worthwhile effort if such preservation could free the mind of certain people who think negatively about
Africa . "If pieces of our heritage can be so preserved for others who think negatively about our race in
order to free their mind of negative thinking, it definitely worth it."
With 1km mini jungle, a private zoo, mud thatched hut, three African gift shops, a Timbuktu Cafe House
that serves varieties of the "best" African coffee from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia; it's replica of a typical
African village. Even animals and birds like buffalo, goat, zebra, bush pig, cow, camel, donkey, antelope,
donkey, fowl, duck including people's favourite - a thirty-nine-year old African owl, are being kept in this
monumental Afrika Múzeum.
| By Hakeem Babalola | Hungary | posted Nov. 1 2008 | mysmallvoice@yahoo.com |
