
The Netherlands Is Working on a Shared Future for Shared Heritage
‘It is not difficult to find a basis for cooperation. After all, each country cares for its heritage and thus faces similar issues.’
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What is today's relationship between the Low Countries and their colonial past? The articles in this series have been written by personalities from the Netherlands, Indonesia, Belgium and Congo.
‘It is not difficult to find a basis for cooperation. After all, each country cares for its heritage and thus faces similar issues.’
There is something about the development of the Indonesian language that irritates journalist Joss Wibisono - it is being mixed with English.
Birney's throat-grabbing novel 'The Interpreter from Java' about the colonial past in the Dutch East Indies highlights the lasting consequences of a civil war in a penetrating way.
How do we have to treat books that have fallen out of favour or have become taboo due to a changing Zeitgeist and more progressive perceptions?
A young, progressive generation is genuinely interested in Belgium’s colonial past, mainly because they realise that the origin of today’s racism can often be found in this period.
In his book 'Leopold's Legacy', photographer Oliver Leu is researching the various forms of representation of the colonial history of Congo in Belgium.
Realism, surrealism and the absurd compete for priority in the Emma De Swaef’s and Marc James Roels’ stop–motion film This Magnificent Cake!
After five years of renovation and decolonisation, the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren opened again. Dutch writer of Congolese descent, Kiza Magendane visited the museum with mixed feelings.
Where are the official apologies for the sufferings the Dutch and Belgians caused in their former colonies?
The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands searched its collection for traces of slavery and colonial history.
Finally, a documentary with the Maroons, rather than about them.
Was the Dutch writer really such an anti-colonial rebel? And what about his preference for young girls?
PhD Researcher Grace Leksana reflects on the speech by Gert Oostindie at the seminar 'Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future'.
Pinkster came across to the United States with the 17-th century Dutch settlers.
Gert Oostindie spoke of the contemporary significance of the colonial past at the seminar 'Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future'.
The speech of festival director Viktorien van Hulst at the seminar ‘Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future’.
For some, he was a servant, for others a vanquished devil. However, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats sheds a different light on the origins of the controversial Black Pete tradition.
The artist dismantles stereotypes about women and people of colour.