The Spectre as Metaphor

Looking for Postcolonial Ghosts in the Work of Jacques Derrida and Achille Mbembe (Cameroon). Keynote lecture by cultural analyst Dr. Esther Peeren. In connection with the exhibition Spectres by Sven Augustijnen (Belgium). In Spectres, Augustijnen follows former Belgian civil servant, Jacques Brassinne de La Buissière, who is obsessed with uncovering the historical truth around the kiling of the DC Congo's first prime minister Partice Lumumba.

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