A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race HistoryPosted in Africa, Articles, History, Media Archive on 2010-11-15 00:59Z by Steven |
A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History
Afro-Europe International Blog
2010-06-15
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| The Bastards in Our Colony: Hidden Stories of Belgian Metis |
You haven’t heard much from me lately. I was writing a book and it’s finally finished and published. The book I wrote together with Kathleen Ghequière traces back a history of Africa and Europe that has been ignored for too much time. Some of you know about the mixed race children of Australia thanks to movies such as ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ or even Baz Luhrmann’s latest ‘Australia’. But concerning Africa this history is unknown.
It seems as if the European colonizer didn’t have intimate relationships with the African colonized. But many children were born out of relations between white Europeans and black Africans during colonization. These children undermined the racial colonial order with their existence. These children have been hidden and their stories silenced. At least for the Belgian Congo this story is now unveiled and in this book the mixed race children of Belgium and Congo express their history freely…
Read the entire article here.