Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader and author of ...

Months after Belgium's Black Lives Matter protests, the country's reckoning with its past has come under scrutiny. But some Belgian activists feel that tackling race and colonialism-related issues ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.7193885.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.7193885.3 If the first half of the twentieth century was defined by warring empires, the second ...

Director Johan Grimonprez delves into Belgium's past to investigate the plot against Congolese independence. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Louis Armstrong arrived in the Congolese capital, ...

My first trip to Africa was to the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, in the mid-1950s, when African decolonization had just begun, and Africa`s elites believed in themselves, and in a free Africa`s future.

History Fifty-five years ago, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister was assassinated by rebels working closely with Belgium and the United States. The unpunished crime is a symbol of the ...

A major critical and popular success in Belgium, this sweeping history of Congo begins during the precolonial era and brings readers all the way up to the current era of warlords and civil war. Van ...

A single tooth, all the remains of the country's first prime minister, was interred in a somber ceremony. The tooth was recently returned six decades after his death ...

New spirits : Central Africa draws the attention of East and West, 1870-1885 -- "Diabolical filth" : Congo under Leopold II, 1885-1908 -- The Belgians set us free : the early years of the colonial ...

Months after Belgium's Black Lives Matter protests, the country's reckoning with its past has come under scrutiny. But some Belgian activists feel that tackling race ...