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Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium
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, Gaël Faye, François Kabasele, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, VY Mudimbe, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, 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.

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), Dónal 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), Maëline Le Lay (CNRS/ THALIM, Sorbonne nouvelle), Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London), Caroline Williamson Sinalo (University of Cork)

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  1. Cover Page
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgements
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  1. Thinking, Performing, and Overcoming Belgium’s ‘Colonial Power Matrix’? An Introduction
  2. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
  3. pp. 11-40
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  1. Part 1 — Regimes of Knowledge and Decolonisation
  2. pp. 41-42
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  1. Must Leopold Fall? The Renovation of the AfricaMuseum and Belgium’s Place in International Debates on the Decolonisation of Public Heritage
  2. Dónal Hassett
  3. pp. 43-62
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  1. Imperial Fictions: Belgian Novels about Rwanda
  2. Nicki Hitchcott
  3. pp. 63-80
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  1. Confronting the Colonial Past? Genocide Education in Francophone Belgian Schools
  2. Catherine Gilbert
  3. pp. 81-100
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  1. Part 2 — International Resonances
  2. pp. 101-102
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  1. Imperial Entanglements of the Congo/African Institute, Colwyn Bay, Wales (1889–1911)
  2. Robert Burroughs
  3. pp. 103-120
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  1. Performative Challenges to Belgium’s Colonial Amnesia: Mobilising Archives and Resonant Spaces
  2. Yvette Hutchison
  3. pp. 121-142
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  1. Writing in Ciluba: From Colonial Extirpation to the Challenge of Globalisation
  2. Albert Kasanda
  3. pp. 143-164
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  1. Part 3 — Imperial Practices and Their Afterlives
  2. pp. 165-166
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  1. Media Representations of Burundi’s 2020 Elections in Belgium and Burundi
  2. Caroline Williamson Sinalo
  3. pp. 167-188
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  1. Living with Ruination: Rural Neglect and the Persistence of ‘Grey’ Colonial Architecture in Kongolo, Tanganyika, DRC
  2. Reuben A. Loffman
  3. pp. 189-210
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  1. Cash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian Colonialism
  2. Sarah Arens
  3. pp. 211-230
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  1. The Legacy of Alexis Kagame: Responses to Conceptions of Colonisation and Evangelisation in Rwanda
  2. Chantal Gishoma
  3. pp. 231-250
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  1. Part 4 — Trans-African Entanglements
  2. pp. 251-252
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  1. ‘Depuis la Flamandchourie’: Legacies of Belgian Colonialism in Sony Labou Tansi’s Kinshasa
  2. Sky Herington
  3. pp. 253-270
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  1. Landscaping and Escaping the Colony in Mudimbe’s, Ruti’s, and Nayigiziki’s Works’
  2. Maëline Le Lay
  3. pp. 271-293
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  1. Récit d’enfance, récit de distance: Gaby as implicated subject in Gaël Faye’s Petit Pays
  2. pp. 294-312
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  1. Part 5 —The Emergence of Diasporic Agents
  2. pp. 313-314
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  1. ‘Without Art Congo Is Just a Mine’: Art as the Restoration of Shattered Bodies
  2. Bambi Ceuppens
  3. pp. 315-336
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  1. From Leopold III’s Masters of the Congo Jungle to Contemporary Congolese Eco-Cinema: Postcolonial Resonance
  2. Matthias De Groof
  3. pp. 337-358
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  1. Tracking the Potholes of Colonial History: Sinzo Aanza’s Généalogie d’une banalité and Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83
  2. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
  3. pp. 360-380
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 381-410
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  1. About the authors
  2. pp. 411-416
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 417-426
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