Arusha Declaration Monument

{{Short description|Monument in Arusha, Tanzania}}

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|name=Arusha Declaration Monument

|native_name={{native phrase|sw|Mnara wa Azimio la Arusha}}

|image=Arusha Declaration Monument.jpg

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|location=Uhuru Roundabout, Swahili Street, Kati Ward, Arusha City, Tanzania

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|complete=1977

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|dedicated_to=Arusha Declaration

|map_name=Tanzania

|coordinates={{coord|-3.3696|36.6880|region:TZ_type:monument|display=inline,title}}

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|website={{URL|https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/arushadeclarationmonument/home}}

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The Arusha Declaration Monument ({{langx|sw|Mnara wa Azimio la Arusha}}) is a landmark monument and tourist attraction located in Kati ward in Arusha, Tanzania. It was unveiled in 1977 by the nation's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party to commemorate ten years of the Arusha Declaration.{{cite book|author=Edmund Christopher Matotay|title=Place and Tourism Promotion: Urban Regeneration?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=16 April 2010|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-2204-6|pages=8–}} It is situated along Makongoro Road at the centre of the roundabout.

In April 2015, part of the monument was vandalised when one of its copper plaques was stolen.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-04/11/c_134142951.htm |title=Northern Tanzania's authorities grapple to rescue historic monuments from vandalism |date=11 April 2015 |publisher=Xinhuanet |access-date=5 August 2015 }}{{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite news |last=Mashalla |first=Moses |date=23 March 2015 |title=Mnara wa Azimio la Arusha ‘umepoteza’ historia yake |trans-title= Arusha Declaration Monument has 'lost' its history |url=http://www.mwananchi.co.tz/habari/habari-ya-ndani/-/1724700/2662734/-/y1t27oz/-/index.html |newspaper=Mwananchi |access-date=5 August 2015 }}