by Victor Cotton | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Reaction from Renier Nijskens, president and Baudouin Peeters, director of URBA. Ben Affleck. (c) Reuters KING LEOPOLD II AND THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CONGO The Board of Directors of the Royal Belgian-African Union (www.urba-kbau.be), the successor to UROME-KBUOL, has...
by Victor Cotton | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Reward and pensions owed by Belgium to Congolese veterans who served during the colonial era (La Libre Afrique) – response by André de Maere, Honorary Director of KBAU. The AFP report, which also mentions a documentary on these veterans, quotes the words of two...
by Victor Cotton | Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
On October 8, 2019, MusAfrica closed its doors ahead of work to expand and restore the museum. View of MusAfrica, after completion of the Quartier des Casernes. ProjetCoeurDeVille (c) Thomas Piron In addition to increasing the surface area of the complex (from 650m²...
by Victor Cotton | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Conceived at the instigation of King Leopold II as a”palace of the colonies” in anticipation of the Brussels Universal Exhibition in 1897, The aim was to show the Belgians as many objects and goods as possible from his” IndependentState of the...
