A Living Memory, A Shared Legacy, A Future to Build with New Generations
This commemorative event is dedicated to the remembrance, reflection and transmission of the legacies of Patrice Emery Lumumba, Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo and their significance for present and future generations.
An introductory presentation on their historical legacy will be followed by a collective reflection on the significance of their ideas and legacy for the present and the future.
Programme
- 12:30 Welcome And Artistic Opening
- 13:00 Understanding History
- 13:50 Keeping Heritage Alive
- 14:40 Poetic Interlude by city poet Esohe Weyden
- 14:50 Passing It On To New Generations
- 15:30 Participatory Workshops
- 16:20 Collective Feedback And Next Steps
- 16:50 Reception And Networking
​The names of the speakers will be announced at a later date.​
Organizing team
This event is an initiative of Billy Kalonji of the diaspora association . Matthias De Groof (Faculty of Social Sciences) serves as the academic lead for the programme for which he gets support from Baudouin Mena Sebu (IOB Institute of Development Policy / KADOC. Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society) and Janus Verrelst (USOS). The event features contributions from and .
Venue
Aula Lumumba (M.A.143), ​Campus Middelheim, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerpen. Find your way to Campus Middelheim.
In 2023,the University of Antwerp named its historic wooden lecture hall M.A.143 Aula Lumumba. The tribute was an initiative of the University of Antwerp as an effort to reflect on and acknowledge Belgium’s colonial past. The building that houses the Aula Lumumba served as Belgium's Colonial University College (Koloniale Hogeschool) from 1920 to 1961.
Language
The event will have Dutch as main language, with also use of French and English