On 28 May 2026, the French National Assembly adopted a bill repealing the Code Noir and other texts linked to the legal organisation of slavery in French colonies. This late repeal erases neither the crimes nor the inherited racial hierarchies. Above all, it reminds us that old texts do not die by themselves.
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Seventy years after the Algerian students’ strike of May 19, 1956, commemoration cannot limit itself to celebrating sacrifice. It must ask what the Algerian university now does with knowledge, memory and intellectual freedom.
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Sixty-five years after Patrice Lumumba’s assassination, the possibility of judicial action in Belgium recalls that colonial memory is not settled by diplomatic regret or late ceremonies, but by documents, procedures and named responsibilities.
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An artist census may look like a modest administrative gesture. In the DRC, it touches a deeper question: who recognises creators, who counts them, who speaks in their name and what the state does with living culture once it enters a register.
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Regroupment camps remind us that colonial war was not fought only in maquis or prisons, but also through the forced organization of space, families and rural life.
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With Abdelmadjid Meskoud, it is not only a chaabi voice that disappears. It is a popular way of keeping Algiers in memory, far from postcards, official speeches and urban forgetting.
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