Isitampu esitsha seposi sase-US sokuhlonipha iMyuziyam kaZwelonke yeMbali ye-Afrika yaseMelika kunye neNkcubeko sigxininisa impumelelo yase-Afrika naseMelika kwaye ikhuthaza imyuziyam kwinqanaba lehlabathi.
I-US Postal Service yatyhila iSikhumbuzo se-Afrika yaseMelika kunye neNkcubeko Ngonaphakade ngo-Okthobha, kwiiveki nje ezimbalwa emva kokongezwa okutsha kwiZiko laseSmithsonia libhiyozele isikhumbuzo sayo sokuqala ngoSeptemba 24.
Iziko lolondolozo lwembali labala phantse i-3 yezigidi zabakhenkethi oko lavulayo, utshilo umlawuli wemyuziyam uLonnie G. Bunch III.
Ababhenkethi bachitha umndilili weeyure ezinesiqingatha kwesi sakhiwo, eyona myuziyam inkulu kunye nesona sizwe sinikezelwe kubomi base-Afrika-baseMelika, ubugcisa, imbali kunye nenkcubeko. Abandwendweli kwamanye amaziko olondolozo lwembali eSmithsonian bahlala phakathi kweyure kunye neeyure ezimbini neyesigamu, utshilo isithethi saseSmithsonia uLinda St. Thomas.
Eli lixesha lokuqala inkonzo yeposi iwonga imyuziyam yaseSmithsamp ngesitampu sayo, utshilo uRoy Betts, isithethi seenkonzo zeposi. Uthe izigidi ezili-15 zezitampu zishicilelwe.
Isitampu sisekwe kumfanekiso othathwe kwikona yomntla-ntshona yemyuziyam enezinto ezintathu, umbala obhedu obonisa ukholo, ukomelela kunye nethemba kwaye unika imbeko kumakhoboka aseAfrika aseMelika aseNew Orleans naseCharleston, eSouth Carolina.
URonald A. Stroman, usekela-mphathi-jikelele weenkonzo zeposi wathi: “Isitampu esisinikezelayo namhlanje sibonisa ubuhle bemyuziyam. Uthe inkonzo yeposi ibalulekile ekuncedeni abantu abamnyama abakumgangatho ophakathi kuba bebeqeshe ama-Afrika aseMelika ekuqaleni kwenkulungwane yama-20 xa amanye amashishini amaninzi ebengenako.
Izitampu "Ngonaphakade" zihlala zivumelekile ekuposweni kweklasi yokuqala e-US, nokuba leliphi na ixesha elonyukayo lokunyuka.
Abantu abamalunga nezigidi ezingama-30 ngonyaka batyelela enye yeemyuziyam zeSmithsonian ze-19 kunye neegalari zobugcisa eWashington naseNew York.
Iinjongo zemyuziyam yase-Afrika-yaseMelika, eyayigunyaziswe ngumthetho weCongress ngo-2003, kukuba "kuphulwe inzolo eyahlula iMelika nokusinceda sikhumbule ukuba sonke simile kwaye siphuculwa ngamava ase-Afrika naseMelika, ”Bunch utshilo.
Isitampu sithatha unyaka ophawulekayo kumyuziyam, owawusakuba nguMongameli uBarack Obama noGeorge W. Bush wavula ngo-2016.
Ngaphandle kwamanyathelo emyuziyam, uBunch akazange aphuphe ukuba uya kufumana isitampu sayo.
"Ndikuxelele, lo ngumzuzu obaluleke kakhulu kuba ngokungathandabuzekiyo, oku kususa umoya wethu," utshilo uBunch.
