#Colonial Legacy

Articles (6)

• 🇬🇧 Belgian court sends ex-diplomat, 93, to trial over 1961 murder of Congo leader — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Family of then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcome decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘beginning of a reckoning’ </p><p>A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the...

  Related: #Historical Justice
• 🇺🇸 Ex-Belgian diplomat ordered to stand trial over murder of Congo’s Lumumba — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Etienne Davignon, 93, is the only one alive among 10 Belgians accused by the Congolese leader's family of complicity.

  Related: #Historical Justice
• 🇬🇧 Belgian court clears way for trial over 1961 killing of Congo PM Lumumba — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Etienne Davignon, a 93-year-old ex-diplomat, is accused of involvement in the assassination of the independence hero.

  Related: #Historical Justice
• 🇬🇧 Why Namibia's green energy dream could be a red flag for penguins — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A near pristine desert and coastal wilderness in Namibia could soon host a huge hydrogen production facility.

  Related: #Green Energy Development, #Environmental Conservation, #Economic Development
• 🇺🇸 New Energy, Old Powers? ‘Materia Prima’ Explores the Lithium Gold Rush and Echoes of Colonialism in the Smartphone Age (Exclusive CPH:DOX Trailer) — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Jens Schanze’s doc, premiering at Copenhagen, confronts "past colonization and present-day resource politics" in Bolivia and beyond with epic images, an observational approach, and, yes, llamas.

  Related: #Resource Extraction
• 🇬🇧 Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums — 21/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies</p><p>A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts hel...

  Related: #Cultural Repatriation, #Digital Activism, #African Identity