AfricaMuseum Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Let's talk about racism ! [FR]
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Le Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (AfricaMuseum) a une longue histoire en tant qu'institution coloniale. Cette année marque ses 125 ans d...
Patrice Lumumba à travers sa dernière lettre
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Quelques mois après l’indépendance du Congo, Patrice Lumumba est assassiné. Le politologue Jean Omasombo Tshonda se penche sur sa dernière lettr...
Op maat van de overheerser: straf en straffeloosheid in de koloniale rechtspraak
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historicus Mathieu Zana Etambala zoomt in op een foto van een gewelddadige represaille door Belgische militairen op Congolese chefs in de Onafhankelij...
Identités créées, identités encrées
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Le Rwanda a été ajouté officiellement au territoire colonial belge en 1924. Dans cette épisode, l'historien Dantès Singiza évoque le pourquoi et...
Het beeld van Ne Kuko: over koloniale roofkunst & herkomstonderzoek
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
De herkomst van sommige objecten uit de collectie van het AfricaMuseum is controversieel. Waarom werd cultureel erfgoed geroofd? Historicus en a...
Trailer [NL] Tout passe, sauf le passé | Verteld verleden tijd
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welke objecten kunnen ons helpen om het koloniale verleden van België beter te begrijpen? En welke belangrijke verhalen vertellen deze voorwerpen ove...
Trailer [FR] Tout passe, sauf le passé | Verteld verleden tijd
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Quels objets peuvent nous aider à mieux comprendre le passé colonial de la Belgique ? Et quelles histoires importantes ces objets nous racontent-ils...
Goma’s “mystical beast of burden”
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will be careening down hills with Theodore Trefon, an expert in environmental governance and development in DRC, as he recounts st...
Unraveling the notes and scribbles in a linguist’s field notebook
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do linguists do when they are on the field? In this episode, contemporary linguist Maud Devos gives us some insight on how her predecessors learn...
What can a lion’s skull teach us about population genetics?
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look straight down the maw of a lion. We scrutinize a lion’s skull and learn about population genetics in the context of Tanzania...
Volcano maps and trying to predict eruptions
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can we improve early warning systems to detect eruptions long before they happen? In this episode we get hot with magma lakes and active volcanoes...
A new life: aided by conservation, a dance costume moves again
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we marvel at a dance costume once used by the Pende population in Congo. Object conservator Siska Genbrugge talks about the challenge...
A fish tale from Lake Edward
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why would a fish get rid of its teeth on purpose? In this episode, things get fishy! We talk about weird habits developed by fish in Lake Edward, and ...
From log to timber in the Congolese rainforest
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We look at the giant log of an immensely popular timber species. In this episode, we tackle the heavy business of finding a delicate balance between t...
Things are not always what they seem: a Central African Tutankhamun’s grave
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can archaeologists interpret what they see, and also what they don’t see? We dig deep into the story of a Central African grave with archaeologi...