Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem, Congolese historian, and Guy Vanthemsche, Belgian historian, return to the way in which the Congolese and Belgian populations experienced colonization and made it part of their national narrative.
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NOur way of perceiving, thinking and telling about the colonial enterprise in the Congo generally starts from our Belgian point of view. And if we changed our look, if we took the glasses of the Congolese people for a moment, before confronting this prism with ours? Congolese and Belgians: colonization is a part of our common history. Historical facts do not change depending on whether they are examined in Brussels or Kinshasa. But the experience of colonization obviously affected these two peoples differently, just as it built national narratives, identities and collective memories specific to Belgium and the Congo.
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