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Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The contributing authors approach colonial legacies from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine how literature, politics, the arts, the press, cinema, museal practices, architecture, and language policies - but also justice and ethics - have been used to critically revisit this period of African and European history. Whilst engaging with significant figures such as Sammy Baloji, Chokri Ben Chikha, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, Joseph Ndwaniye, and Sony Labou Tansi, this book also analyses the role of places such as the AfricaMuseum, Bujumbura, Colwyn Bay, Kongolo, and the Virunga Park to appraise the links between memory and the development of a postcolonial present.
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Contributors: Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool), Robert Burroughs (Leeds Beckett), Bambi Ceuppens (AfricaMuseum), Matthias De Groof (University of Antwerp), Catherine Gilbert (University of Newcastle), Chantal Gishoma (University of Bayreuth), Hannah Grayson (University of Stirling), Donal Hassett (University of Cork), Sky Herington (University of Warwick), Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews), Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick), Albert Kasanda (Charles University, Prague), Maeline Le Lay (CNRS/ THALIM, Sorbonne nouvelle), Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London), Caroline Williamson Sinalo (University of Cork)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Thinking, Performing, and Overcoming Belgium's 'Colonial Power Matrix'? An Introduction Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Part 1 — Regimes of Knowledge and Decolonisation
Must Leopold Fall? The Renovation of the AfricaMuseum and Belgium's Place in International Debates on the Decolonisation of Public Heritage Dónal Hassett
Imperial Fictions: Belgian Novels about Rwanda Nicki Hitchcott
Confronting the Colonial Past? Genocide Education in Francophone Belgian Schools Catherine Gilbert
Part 2 — International Resonances
Imperial Entanglements of the Congo/African Institute, Colwyn Bay, Wales (1889-1911) Robert Burroughs
Performative Challenges to Belgium's Colonial Amnesia: Mobilising Archives and Resonant Spaces Yvette Hutchison
Writing in Ciluba: From Colonial Extirpation to the Challenge of Globalisation Albert Kasanda
Part 3 — Imperial Practices and Their Afterlives
Media Representations of Burundi's 2020 Elections in Belgium and Burundi Caroline Williamson Sinalo
Living with Ruination: Rural Neglect and the Persistence of 'Grey' Colonial Architecture in Kongolo, Tanganyika, DRC Reuben A. Loffman
Cash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian Colonialism Sarah Arens
The Legacy of Alexis Kagame: Responses to Conceptions of Colonisation and Evangelisation in Rwanda Chantal Gishoma
Part 4 — Trans-African Entanglements
'Depuis la Flamandchourie': Legacies of Belgian Colonialism in Sony Labou Tansi's Kinshasa Sky Herington
Landscaping and Escaping the Colony in Mudimbe's, Ruti's, and Nayigiziki's Works' Maëline Le Lay
Récit d'enfance, récit de distance: Gaby as implicated subject in Gaël Faye's Petit Pays Hannah Grayson
Part 5 —The Emergence of Diasporic Agents
'Without Art Congo Is Just a Mine': Art as the Restoration of Shattered Bodies Bambi Ceuppens
From Leopold III's Masters of the Congo Jungle to Contemporary Congolese Eco-Cinema: Postcolonial Resonance Matthias De Groof
Tracking the Potholes of Colonial History: Sinzo Aanza's Généalogie d'une banalité and Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83 Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
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