Tag: colonial
Exhibition: “Colonial Décadrage” at the Center Pompidou
“Colonial Décadrage” is the title of a small photo exhibition at the Center Pompidou that explores an immense history of the representation of the black body. The images come mainly…
In the hustle and bustle of colonial Kenya, with Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2/2)
” Dreaming in times of war is the French title of the childhood memories of novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Octogenarian, the writer restores in this first volume of…
apologies at the heart of parliamentary discussions on the colonial past
After two and a half years of work, trips to the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, the hearing of nearly 300 people, the Belgian parliamentary commission responsible for examining Belgium’s colonial past…
“colonial” human remains cause scandal
An extensive survey of New York Times evokes the 18,000 skulls and bones in the possession of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, while a Belgian auction house withdrew three…
Statue of German colonial officer removed in Namibia
The controversial statue in Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, was removed after pressure from activists. The 2.4-meter-long bronze statue of the German colonial officer Curt von François in Windhoek was removed from…
Elizabeth II and Cyprus, relations tainted by the colonial past
The news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death sparked mixed reactions in Cyprus, where her reign is associated with a painful past marked by the struggle against British colonial power and…
They built cars with colonial gold! A country is talking about it
It was announced that the “Golden Car”, which is used in the opening ceremonies of the legislative year of the parliament in the Netherlands every year, was made with gold…
Revisiting the darkness of colonial Mozambique, with Portuguese-speaking Mia Couto (1/2)
A great name in contemporary African Portuguese letters, Mia Couto writes for ” teach readers to dream “. Journalist, poet, novelist, columnist, storyteller, he is the author of a sumptuous…
The Avicenne hospital in Bobigny, a colonial heritage
The 60th anniversary of Algeria’s independence, July 5, 1962, marks the end of more than 130 years of colonization by France. This policy, marked in particular by the segregation of…
In the gears of colonial conquest in Madagascar, with Michèle Rakotoson
In his new novel Ambatomanga, the Malagasy novelist Michèle Rakotoson recounts the colonial conquest of her country in the 19th century, revisiting through fiction the brutalities and devastation from which…