Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat opens with footage of a Max Roach drum solo, cut with intertitles of his wife, the singer, actress and activist Abbey Lincoln, announcing The Cultural Association of Women ...

A provisional government led by Charles Rogier declared Belgian independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands on ...

After long months of discussions, Belgium has finally formed a new federal government. For the first time in a long time, the Socialist Party and Ecolo, the ‘Greens,’ are no longer in power.

Two years ago, the 60th anniversary of Congo’s independence reignited calls to put Lumumba’s soul to rest. Protesters gathered outside the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa, seeking restitution of ...

The return of Lumumba's tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated ... the country could have achieved after its independence. Instead, it became mired in decades of ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

that by last week shaken Belgian leaders (who a few years ago boasted that their economic paternalism would long postpone political freedom) were resigned to an offer of full independence for the ...