Reflections on DR Congo

Programme:

1) Film screening

White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Peter Bate, Belgium, 2003

84 min. (language: Dutch, English, French with English subtitles)

"The story of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonisation of central Africa, turning it into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which millions died. What the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. It's a shocking, astonishing story. In a way, it's a horrifying prelude in European history to the Holocaust." (Nick Fraser, BBC)

2) Discussion after the film: Is there any future for DR

Congo?

Humanitas Afrika has invited members of the Congolese community in Prague, Dieudonne Mubenzem, Jacque Moliba-Bankanza, to give their perspective on how they see the future of their own country. The working language of the discussion will be Czech.

3) Cultural evening:

Congolese music and food.