AcknowledgementsThinking, Performing, and Overcoming Belgium’s ‘Colonial Power Matrix’? An IntroductionPierre-Philippe FraiturePart 1 — Regimes of Knowledge and DecolonisationMust Leopold Fall? The Renovation of the AfricaMuseum and Belgium’s Place in International Debates on the Decolonisation of Public HeritageDónal HassettImperial Fictions: Belgian Novels about RwandaNicki HitchcottConfronting the Colonial Past? Genocide Education in Francophone Belgian SchoolsCatherine GilbertPart 2 — International ResonancesImperial Entanglements of the Congo/African Institute, Colwyn Bay, Wales (1889–1911)Robert BurroughsPerformative Challenges to Belgium’s Colonial Amnesia: Mobilising Archives and Resonant SpacesYvette HutchisonWriting in Ciluba: From Colonial Extirpation to the Challenge of GlobalisationAlbert KasandaPart 3 — Imperial Practices and Their AfterlivesMedia Representations of Burundi’s 2020 Elections in Belgium and BurundiCaroline Williamson SinaloLiving with Ruination: Rural Neglect and the Persistence of ‘Grey’ Colonial Architecture in Kongolo, Tanganyika, DRCReuben A. LoffmanCash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian ColonialismSarah ArensThe Legacy of Alexis Kagame: Responses to Conceptions of Colonisation and Evangelisation in RwandaChantal GishomaPart 4 — Trans-African Entanglements‘Depuis la Flamandchourie’: Legacies of Belgian Colonialism in Sony Labou Tansi’s KinshasaSky HeringtonLandscaping and Escaping the Colony in Mudimbe’s, Ruti’s, and Nayigiziki’s Works’Maëline Le LayRécit d’enfance, récit de distance: Gaby as implicated subject in Gaël Faye’s Petit PaysHannah GraysonPart 5 —The Emergence of Diasporic Agents‘Without Art Congo Is Just a Mine’: Art as the Restoration of Shattered BodiesBambi CeuppensFrom Leopold III’s Masters of the Congo Jungle to Contemporary Congolese Eco-Cinema: Postcolonial ResonanceMatthias De GroofTracking the Potholes of Colonial History: Sinzo Aanza’s Généalogie d’une banalité and Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83Pierre-Philippe FraitureBibliographyAbout the authorsIndexColonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and BelgiumBelgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The contributing authors approach colonial legacies from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine how literature, politics, the arts, the press, cinema, museal practices, architecture, and language policies – but also justice and ethics – have been used to critically revisit this period of African and European history. Whilst engaging with significant figures such as Sammy Baloji, Chokri Ben Chikha, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, Joseph Ndwaniye, and Sony Labou Tansi, this book also analyses the role of places such as the AfricaMuseum, Bujumbura, Colwyn Bay, Kongolo, and the Virunga Park to appraise the links between memory and the development of a postcolonial present.Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The contributing authors approach colonial legacies from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine how literature, politics, the arts, the press, cinema, museal practices, architecture, and language policies – but also justice and ethics – have been used to critically revisit this period of African and European history. Whilst engaging with significant figures such as Sammy Baloji, Chokri Ben Chikha, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, Joseph Ndwaniye, and Sony Labou Tansi, this book also analyses the role of places such as the AfricaMuseum, Bujumbura, Colwyn Bay, Kongolo, and the Virunga Park to appraise the links between memory and the development of a postcolonial present.