A Black Lion of Flanders
Roland Gunst – half Flemish, half Congolese – uses installations, performances, film and video to explore the search for his own identity.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Roland Gunst – half Flemish, half Congolese – uses installations, performances, film and video to explore the search for his own identity.
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.
With the Congo Commission, Belgium took a different path from the Netherlands, which had its colonial past in Indonesia investigated by three institutes. What does this mean for dealing with a fraught history?
Which objects are we talking about exactly? Who claims them? And what should be done with them in the country of origin?
In his book 'Leopold's Legacy', photographer Oliver Leu is researching the various forms of representation of the colonial history of Congo in Belgium.
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.