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Crime against humanity: Why has a court found Belgium guilty of kidnapping?
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Crime against humanity: Why has a court found Belgium guilty of kidnapping?

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of children were forcibly taken from their families in Belgium’s African colonies because they were mixed-race. A court has ordered Belgium to pay millions of dollars in compensation to five mixed-race women who were forcibly taken from their homes in the Belgian Congo as children, under a colonial-era practice that judges said was a “crime against humanity”. “When this …

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Review: Jazz, African independence, secret agents — it’s all in ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’
1 month, 1 week ago

Review: Jazz, African independence, secret agents — it’s all in ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’

LA Times  

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words and sounds, recounting the moment during the Cold War when Congolese independence, hot jazz and geopolitical tensions made a sound heard around the world. The film’s organizing narrative swings back and forth from …

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African Human Rights Commission condemns Indigenous groups’ eviction to protect nature
4 months, 3 weeks ago

African Human Rights Commission condemns Indigenous groups’ eviction to protect nature

Associated Press  

DAKAR, Senegal — The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country’s biggest national parks, according to the African Union’s commission on human rights. The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights called on the Congolese government to allow for the …

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Belgium returns Congo independence hero’s tooth to family
2 years, 6 months ago

Belgium returns Congo independence hero’s tooth to family

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and look toward reconciliation. Following a private ceremony in the presence of relatives of Lumumba during which the federal prosecutor handed over a case containing the tooth, Belgium’s prime minister …

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Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ to Congolese
2 years, 6 months ago

Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ to Congolese

Associated Press  

KINSHASA, Congo — Belgium’s King Philippe expressed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s abuses in its former colony Congo, telling lawmakers Wednesday on his first official trip to the country that Belgian colonial rule was unjustifiable and racist. “Although many Belgians were sincerely committed to loving the Congo and its people deeply, the colonial regime, as such, was based on …

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Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ for abuses in DR Congo
2 years, 6 months ago

Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ for abuses in DR Congo

Al Jazeera  

Philippe is the first Belgian official to express regret for atrocities inflicted on the Congolese, but he is yet to apologise. Belgium’s King Philippe has reaffirmed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s colonial-era abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but stopped short of formally apologising, again. On the occasion of my first trip to Congo, right here, in …

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PHOTOS: Congolese artists channel 'Mad Max' and Chewbacca with costumes made of trash
2 years, 6 months ago

PHOTOS: Congolese artists channel 'Mad Max' and Chewbacca with costumes made of trash

NPR  

PHOTOS: Congolese artists channel 'Mad Max' and Chewbacca with costumes made of trash Enlarge this image toggle caption Colin Delfosse Colin Delfosse There's a man wearing a suit of rubbery old car parts, like he's an extra in the film "Mad Max." But they also highlight the resilience and beauty of its people, captured in a set of striking portraits …

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Belgium's Africa Museum begins long road to return looted artworks to Congo
3 years, 5 months ago

Belgium's Africa Museum begins long road to return looted artworks to Congo

Hindustan Times  

Belgium's Africa Museum, once a celebration of the country's colonial rule, will begin a multi-year process of returning stolen art to Democratic Republic of Congo, the Belgian government said on Tuesday. An ancestral statue known as Lusinga, dated to the 19th century, is pictured at the Royal Museum for Central Africa as the Belgian government has announced plans to return …

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Behind Congo’s misery
4 years, 2 months ago

Behind Congo’s misery

The Hindu  

Theories of development up to the middle of the 20th century glorified the European model of development, suppressing critical and alternative perspectives, with the intention of pushing it as a trustworthy model for decolonised countries to follow and get integrated with the international political economy. At the Berlin Conference in 1885, the European colonial powers gave King Leopold II the …

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Belgium’s Congolese mark 60 years since DRC’s independence
4 years, 5 months ago

Belgium’s Congolese mark 60 years since DRC’s independence

Al Jazeera  

The Belgo-Congolese are still marked by their past with Belgium as well as the present’s systematic discrimination. “We need to finally learn to coexist, in the neighbourhood and in the city,” she said, referring to the Matonge neighbourhood where the bookshop is located and which has a large Congolese population. From Matonge to Matonge Over the past 60 years, more …

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