Rachid Koraichi: Jardin Dafrique / Garden Of Africa

Garden of Africa is an artist's response to the need for humans to be given proper dignity after death. Many corpses, washed up by sea currents on the beaches of Zarzis, Tunisia, had for years been denied a proper burial and had instead gone to the public dump. It was the artist, sculptor, urbanist and architect Rachid Koraichi's determination to create a palace, a final resting place for these people, a site that would itself be a work of art - and would grow into a memorial where families and