‘It would have been nice if not I, but a Congolese had written this book’, said David Van Reybrouck after the publication of his historiography on the Belgian ex-colony Congo in 2010. Now there is the modest collection of essays Black pages, with Afro -Belgian reflections on Flemish (post)colonial literature – from Hendrik Conscience to Lieve Joris – composed by the literary scholar Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana (1975), born in Congo and raised in Brussels. The essays are written by Flemish intellectuals with diverse African backgrounds – Rugwiza Kanobana points directly to the abstraction we create when we use ‘African’.
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Fascinating collection of Afro-Belgian reflections on (post)colonial literature
