Students of History and Facilitator (Assistant Lecturer) from St John’s University of Tanzania conducted a Study Tour on February, 2023; where they visited the monumental Msalabani Cross. The cross was erected in 1993 with the intention to commemorate the arrival of the first missionaries in East Africa in 1868 and thus the Christianization of Africa.
It is located on the beach in a direct line to the Catholic mission. On the cross is written: Mungu aneemeeshe Afrika (God bless Africa) - also the first words of the Tanzanian national anthem. The memorial was redesigned a few years ago.