#VendrediLecture 📚 📖
Jennifer RICHARD, Il est à toi ce beau pays.
Large récit qui met en parallèle la condition des Noirs américains et la colonisation de l' #Afrique centrale. Écriture simple et efficace.
Cette fresque serait captivante si elle n'était truffée de petites erreurs historiques et d'anachronismes des plus irritants.
#bookstodon #livres #Books
#colonisation #slavery #BlackHistory #ColonialHistory #Brazza #LeopoldII #BelgianCongo #colonialViolence #Congo #JenniferRICHARD
https://www.ieb.be/Les-reseaux-de-l-art-nouveau
À l’occasion de la parution de son livre La Dimension coloniale de l’#ArtNouveau, #LucasCatherine se prête au jeu de l’interview et revient sur le long travail historique, et parfois plus personnel, l’ayant amené à devenir l’un des spécialistes du #Congo. Une interview par #VéroniqueCletteGakuba.
#architecture #colonisation #colonialisme #LéopoldII #karabouya #avenueLouisBertrand #GustaveStrauwen #MuséedeTervuren #ArtsandCrafts #WienerSezession #Expositioncoloniale #HenryVandeVelde #PaulHankar #VictorHorta #PhilippeWolfers #HalfPintClub #SociétédelaTableronde #Cercleartistiqueetlittéraire #LesAmisphilanthropes #CercleGaulois
"#Solvay, #Autrique, #Tassel, #Winssinger… les commanditaires des premières grandes réalisations architecturales d’Horta étaient ingénieurs chez Solvay, enseignaient à l’#ULB et fréquentaient la loge Les Amis Philanthropes."
Been listening to #ColumMcCann perform his novel #Twist.
And I hear in interviews that he sees it relating to #JosephConrad's #TheHeartOfDarkness.
And I find that I've somehow missed that The Heart of Darkness is set in the horror of the #BelgianCongo genocides.
So next to listen to Conrad's book.
Hoy en Joel te recomienda otro libro que encabrona.
De existir el infierno, espero que el bueno de Leopoldo se esté rostizando como pollo a la vara. #belgium #belgique #leopoldii
I'm not even halfway in to a book about King #LeopoldII and I already hate his mother fucking guts.
I want to go where he's buried and spit on his grave. And I'm not even Belgian. #Belgium #Belguiqe
@EU_Commission why isn't the coin designed that reminds of the terrible acts of #Belgium back then when #LeopoldII was doing his #racist and #hateful acts in #africa?
Germany has a coin of the #Kniefall but Belgium has nothing similar, despite Belgium eradicated tribes and killed many people for no reason. Not even a coin that remembers that tragic event. #EU2024BE #Eu #Belgium #NeverForget
The Declaration of Pillnitz was a joint statement issued on 27 August 1791 by Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. https://www.worldhistory.org/Declaration_of_Pillnitz/ #History #DeclarationofPillnitz #FrenchRevolution #LeopoldII,HolyRomanEmperor
The Declaration of Pillnitz was a joint statement issued on 27 August 1791 by Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. https://www.worldhistory.org/Declaration_of_Pillnitz/ #History #DeclarationofPillnitz #FrenchRevolution #LeopoldII,HolyRomanEmperor
@groen zit fout in#congo #comission . Niet @Belgiumers waren fout maar #antwerpen en #Brussels #multinational die een vrijbrief kregen van #LeopoldII .
Ondanks dat er 2 witte handjes op t 13e eeuwse wapen van #Antwerpen staan, is het luguber, onfatsoenlijk en racistisch om dit juist in #België nu nog steeds te maken! Vooral die van donkere chocolade!
🧵 https://tweets.todon.eu/Africa_Archives/status/1575773767728504832
#racisme #Congo #kolonialisme #genocide #LeopoldII
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RT @Africa_Archives
Belgians,they used to cut off your hand or your child’s hand if you didnt fill your quot…
https://twitter.com/Africa_Archives/status/1575773767728504832
"#LauraNsengiyumva is a Belgian artist of Rwandan origin, born in 1987. [...] Focusing on decolonial critique, her work responds to a need to materialise this in order to create new social relationships. [...] The roughly 250 pages of our report contain a whole series of recommendations for ‘the #decolonisation of the #Brussels Capital Region’s public space’. We worked on it for a year and a half, alongside 14 experts, at the request of the Brussels Secretary of State #PascalSmet. Today, I feel more conflicted than proud, especially because of the follow-up to our proposal concerning the infamous equestrian statue of #LeopoldII on the Place du Trône. On the one hand, because the ambient anti-wokism of our group did not want to mention clearly my work #PeoPL as the source of inspiration. On the other hand, because in spite of courageous stands taken for the whole city, the recommendation of this specific case still ends in the status quo. [...] . At the end of 2017, behind closed doors, a senior member of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (#RMCA) tried to make me aware of the radical nature of the artistic gesture I was trying to accomplish 'Would you like us to melt your father?' "
https://www.eye-to-eye.online/laura-nsengiyumva/
#Belgium #Congo #colonisation
#ChantalAkerman #Bruxelles #LeopoldII (mais pourquoi Google Forms?)
https://mobilite-mobiliteit.brussels/fr/debut-de-la-renovation-du-tunnel-leopold-ii
Ouep. Il est temps qu'on remplace ces statues par celles des persécutés du régime.
http://chng.it/QmzwwGLd #LeopoldII #belgique. #racisme
Following the #BlackLivesMatter protests, a statue of mass murderer #LeopoldII was removed today in Antwerp.
Take it down and destroy it!!!
Talking about villains. Belgian king Leopold II was responsible for ~10 million deaths in what is now #Congo (DRC). Yes, you can call him the Belgian Hitler.
#BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterBE #Brussel #Brussels #Bruxelles #België #Belgique #LeopoldII
Projections in Brussels last night with @XR_Belgium@twitter.com
