Tag: Belgian history

Royal Museum for Central Africa: Can curatorial re-alignment make good on decades of colonial propaganda?

Tervuren’s famed Royal Museum for Central Africa has reopened its doors to an eager public, promising “a contemporary and ‘decolonised’ vision of Africa.” Is the museum indeed finally offering new perspectives on collections that for decades were violently reduced to a colonial identity?

On fighting for colonial contextualisation, by CLCMD’s Kalvin Soiresse Niall

Collectif Mémoire Coloniale et Lutte Contre les Discriminations is the country's loudest voice concerning the decolonisation of education, space, and the Belgian collective memory; and as such constantly seek to turn their words into affirmative action.