Congo crisis – Innovative Research Methods

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 20, 2020

Corinna Billmaier

A Blank Spot in the Drawing: The Organisation of African Unity and the Congo Crisis

How a missed chance to prove unity and the ability of conflict resolution resulted in insignificance in the historical narrative, ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 12, 2020

Corinna Billmaier

Reflecting on Silences, Challenges and Methods

In one of the first sessions of our seminar we discussed the Congo Crisis. Sapin was our guest and presented ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 6, 2020

Corinna Billmaier

The OAU in the historical narrative and the African Union today: Interview with Sapin Makengele

The OAU’s involvement in the Congo Crisis didn’t go beyond issuing resolutions and urging the conflicting parties to come to ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 6, 2020

Corinna Billmaier

Why did the OAU fail to bring about a solution in the Congo Crisis?

The drawing (year, origin and purpose unknown) stands in stark contrast with the actual impact the Organisation of African Unity ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 6, 2020

Corinna Billmaier

The Organisation of African Unity: a Symbol for Pan-Africanism?

Representatives of some of the independent African states participating at the founding conference of the OAU in May 1963. A ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Elske Toot

Bonus Features

Interview with Lumumba

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Elske Toot

Unsilencing Conclusion

Not a tooth for a tooth, but just some common decency and the return of a man's denture to his ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Elske Toot

The Unsilencing of History that is Confronting

This video displays the importance of considering the confronting parts of history. You will see contemporary issues that silencing brings ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Corinna Billmaier

Imagining a Postcolonial African Future: Pan-Africanism

Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana, addressing the first All Africa People's Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana, December 5-13, 1958. ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Elske Toot

The Unsilencing of What Happened to the Tooth

Here, you will find information on what happened to Lumumba after he was murdered and where his tooth is today. ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Elske Toot

The Unsilencing of a History of Bloodshed

In this video you will see how attempts have been made to unsilence practices of bloodshed in Congo that occured ...

Congo crisis Negotiating Power in Africa

February 5, 2020

Elske Toot

Unsilencing through Lumumba’s Tooth

It is with our mouths, which harbour our teeth, that we tell our stories, our histories. Lumumba was silenced, but ...