The Sanniquellie Declaration Monument is a modest concrete marker in the centre of town, commemorating the July 1959 meeting between Tubman, Nkrumah and Touré that produced one of the founding documents of the post-colonial African unity movement. For a town this small, on a road this remote, the historical resonance is striking.
The monument is not large or elaborately designed — a stone plinth with a plaque and a small surrounding park — but it is a place worth a stop and a slow reading. The local administration keeps it tidied, and the Liberian government still occasionally holds anniversary events here.