Tiglachin Monument

This large socialist-era memorial on Churchill Avenue commemorates Ethiopian and Cuban soldiers who died in the Ogaden conflict of the late 1970s. Erected in 1984 with assistance from the then Eastern Bloc, it features a tall central column flanked by bronze reliefs and statues in a heroic realist style. Its name translates as our struggle, reflecting the revolutionary rhetoric of the period. The monument endures as a striking example of the era's public art.