Renovating the AfricaMuseum
An overview of some of the problems and opportunities that the reopening of Belgium’s infamous AfricaMuseum brings.
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Sarah Van Beurden is an associate professor of African Studies at the Ohio State University and author of Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture (New African Histories, Ohio University Press, 2015).
An overview of some of the problems and opportunities that the reopening of Belgium’s infamous AfricaMuseum brings.
‘Beauté Congo’ wonderfully represents Congolese contemporary art, yet fails to completely evade European colonial baggage.