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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Reviving the remains of colonization: the Belgian colonial archives in Brussels |
Author: | Piret, Bérengère |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | History in Africa (ISSN 1558-2744) |
Volume: | 42 |
Pages: | 419-431 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Belgium |
Subjects: | archives colonial period |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2015.1 |
Abstract: | Since 1997, all the archives of Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, are deposited at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels and are opened up for the public. For more than fifteen years, researchers have consulted and scrutinized its documents produced by the colonial authorities between 1908 and 1960. Still several collections have not been explored. This article relates of the history and the organization of the archives of Belgian Congo. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |