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[[File:David Livingstone memorial at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|David Livingstone memorial at [[Victoria Falls]], the first statue on the Zimbabwean side]] | [[File:David Livingstone memorial at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|David Livingstone memorial at [[Victoria Falls]], the first statue on the Zimbabwean side]] | ||
The monument is located at the Victoria Falls. The plan came in 2004 after a life-sized bronze statue of Dr David Livingstone which is located in Zimbabwe overlooking at the Victoria Falls for more than half a century. But after years of neglect by its current owners, the Zimbabwean government the Zambia government began to start calling for the statue to be handed over to them. | The monument is located at the Victoria Falls. The plan came in 2004 after a life-sized bronze statue of Dr David Livingstone which is located in Zimbabwe overlooking at the Victoria Falls for more than half a century. But after years of neglect by its current owners, the Zimbabwean government the Zambia government began to start calling for the statue to be handed over to them. | ||
== Life == | |||
{{Main|David Livingstone}} | |||
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion. | |||
== Notes and references == | == Notes and references == |