https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=L%E2%80%99Afrique_aux_%E2%80%B9noirs%E2%80%BA&feed=atom&action=historyL’Afrique aux ‹noirs› - Revision history2024-03-28T13:54:44ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.1https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=L%E2%80%99Afrique_aux_%E2%80%B9noirs%E2%80%BA&diff=8550&oldid=prevFS at 08:32, 7 June 20192019-06-07T08:32:21Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div class="intro">On the eve of [[Paul Otlet|Paul Otlet's]] oeuvre entering the Public Domain, [http://efele.net/ebooks éfélé] re-published a 1888 pamphlet, ''L'Afrique aux noirs''. Addressing 'his' king [[Leopold II]], Otlet boldly suggests to 'repatriate' African-Amercian slaves to Africa, assuming that any claims to citizen rights would be impossible to obtain in the USA, even after abolition.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></div></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div class="intro">On the eve of [[Paul Otlet|Paul Otlet's]] oeuvre entering the Public Domain, [http://efele.net/ebooks éfélé] re-published a 1888 pamphlet, ''L'Afrique aux noirs''. Addressing 'his' king [[Leopold II]], Otlet boldly suggests to 'repatriate' African-Amercian slaves to Africa, assuming that any claims to citizen rights would be impossible to obtain in the USA, even after abolition.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The crisp electronic re</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">edition allows an interesting shift of context</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and helps </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">understand Otlet's naivete and Eurocentrism </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">relation to </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">universalist imaginary </del>that <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">colors </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">later Mundaneum projects</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Otlet boldly supports initiatives to 'repatriate' African</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Amercian slaves to Africa</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">assuming that any claims to citizen rights would be impossible </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">obtain </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">USA, even after abolition. The pamphlet reflects the generalised propaganda of the time </ins>that the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">colonisation of Congo was in fact a humanitarian mission: ‘We Europeans, who have colonised African soil, we, especially Belgians, who have taken a direct part in the civilising work of the Congo’</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">While he was unfortunately not alone in taking such a position, the racism expressed in his writing is troubling:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">blockquote</del>><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I think that we would do well to treat Belgian immaterial and material colonial heritage in a similar way. The origins of the term “negroes”/”niggers”</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“black” and “white” owe as much to the colonial past as </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">monuments erected for Leopold II </del>and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Congo pioneers. In fact</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the same can </del>be <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">said for the seemingly neutral term African as in “African woman”. For, as Ali Mazrui (1986) reminds us, we routinely differentiate between the continent “Africa”, which includes </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">regions north </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">south </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sahara and the cultural and</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or “racial” entity “Africa” which we restrict to SubSaharan Africa. As such, most </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">us will immediately equate an African wo/man with </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“black” one</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">irrespective </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ways in which inhabitants from subSaharan African identify themselves. However, using too many stumbling stones risks turning </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">walking or reading route into a hurdle race and distracts from </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">original purpose. We should not deny, forget or neutralise Belgium’s material and immaterial colonial heritage any </del>more <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">than we should do with its history of antiJudaism and antiSemitism. But neither should we destroy or wall it in as it were. Instead, we can [use] little stumble blocks to remind and pay tribute to those who were subject to colonial violence in its various physical, psychological and social aspects.<ref>Bambi Cueppens in: Marc benoemt 's morgens de dingen (Verbindingen/Jonctions 9, 2009) http</del>:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">//www.constantvzw.com/downloads/marc.pdf</ref></blockquote></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">em</ins>><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">En mettant directement en contact le blanc raffiné et le noir encore sauvage</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">n’allons-nous pas nuire plutôt qu’être utiles au récent et glorieux avènement du continent noir ? (By bringing together </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">refined white </ins>and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">still wild black directly</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are we not going to do harm rather than </ins>be <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">useful to </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recent </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">glorious advent </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">black continent?)<</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">em></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Otlet sees no harm in understanding this mission ‘worthy </ins>of a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">human and Christian heart</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">worthy also </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">enlightened sovereign’ as </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">way to make the exploitation of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">territory </ins>more <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">efficient</ins>:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Following </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bambi Ceuppens]</del>], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I insert 'stumblingblocks' </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''L’Afrique aux noirs'' turns into ''L’Afrique aux ‹noirs›'':</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><em></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">C]es nègres auront vite fait de couvrir de plantations les riches vallées du Congo et du Kassaï, de relier par des voies ferrées les principales sources de production, de créer des ports nouveaux. Ils auront bientôt mis fin eux-mêmes aux misères de l’esclavage, organisé la défense du territoire, assaini le pays, ouvert une riche région aux entreprises européennes. (</ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">T</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hese negroes will quickly have covered the rich valleys of Congo and Kassaï with plantations, linked by railways the main sources of production, and created new ports. They will soon have put an end to the miseries of slavery themselves, organised the defence of the territory</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cleaned up the country </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">opened up a rich region to European companies.)</em></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote>L’Afrique aux ‹noirs› ! Telle donc l’œuvre à laquelle il nous faut travailler</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The crisp electronic re-edition directs attention to the aspect of colonialism and extreme Eurocentrism, often downplayed in the portrayal of Otlet. It colors the universalist imaginary of the later Mundaneum projects and also helps to understand why Otlet remained loyal to ‘his’ king and how he could negate the atrocities taking place in Congo, long after these facts were widely known</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A Léopold II de faire entendre de nouveau sa parole</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">à lui de prendre l’initiative de ce rapatriement des nègres américains. Qu’il se mette en relation avec le Moïse ‹noir›, qu’il fasse offrir des terres et des positions à ceux qu’enthousiasme la parole de ce nouveau prophète, et qu’ainsi notre Roi achève glorieusement la noble tâche qu’il s’est proposée : appeler à la civilisation le continent africain.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><small>Description updated after a discussion initiated by Julie Boschat-Thorez</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">June 2019</small></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cette œuvre est digne d’un cœur d’homme et </del>de <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">chrétien</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">digne aussi du souverain éclairé d’un peuple libre et travailleur</del>.</blockquote></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote>I think that we would do well to treat Belgian immaterial and material colonial heritage in a similar way. The origins of the term “negroes”/”niggers”, “black” and “white” owe as much to the colonial past as the monuments erected for Leopold II and the Congo pioneers. In fact, the same can be said for the seemingly neutral term African as in “African woman”. For, as Ali Mazrui (1986) reminds us, we routinely differentiate between the continent “Africa”, which includes the regions north and south of the Sahara and the cultural and/or “racial” entity “Africa” which we restrict to SubSaharan Africa. As such, most of us will immediately equate an African wo/man with a “black” one, irrespective of the ways in which inhabitants from subSaharan African identify themselves. However, using too many stumbling stones risks turning a walking or reading route into a hurdle race and distracts from the original purpose. We should not deny, forget or neutralise Belgium’s material and immaterial colonial heritage any more than we should do with its history of antiJudaism and antiSemitism. But neither should we destroy or wall it in as it were. Instead, we can [use] little stumble blocks to remind and pay tribute to those who were subject to colonial violence in its various physical, psychological and social aspects.<ref>Bambi Cueppens in: Marc benoemt 's morgens </ins>de <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dingen (Verbindingen/Jonctions 9</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2009) http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/marc</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pdf</ref></ins></blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div class="intro">On the eve of [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">person::</del>Paul Otlet|Paul Otlet's]] oeuvre entering the Public Domain, [http://efele.net/ebooks éfélé] re-published a 1888 pamphlet, ''L'Afrique aux noirs''. Addressing 'his' king [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">person::</del>Leopold II]], Otlet boldly suggests to 'repatriate' African-Amercian slaves to Africa, assuming that any claims to citizen rights would be impossible to obtain in the USA, even after abolition.</div></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div class="intro">On the eve of [[Paul Otlet|Paul Otlet's]] oeuvre entering the Public Domain, [http://efele.net/ebooks éfélé] re-published a 1888 pamphlet, ''L'Afrique aux noirs''. Addressing 'his' king [[Leopold II]], Otlet boldly suggests to 'repatriate' African-Amercian slaves to Africa, assuming that any claims to citizen rights would be impossible to obtain in the USA, even after abolition.</div></div></td></tr>
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</table>Dickreckardhttps://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=L%E2%80%99Afrique_aux_%E2%80%B9noirs%E2%80%BA&diff=6490&oldid=prevAlexia at 15:00, 25 February 20162016-02-25T15:00:25Z<p></p>
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</table>Alexiahttps://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=L%E2%80%99Afrique_aux_%E2%80%B9noirs%E2%80%BA&diff=924&oldid=prevFS at 10:08, 17 February 20152015-02-17T10:08:25Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>I think that we would do well to treat Belgian immaterial and material colonial heritage in a similar way. The origins of the term “negroes”/”niggers”, “black” and “white” owe as much to the colonial past as the monuments erected for Leopold II and the Congo pioneers. In fact, the same can be said for the seemingly neutral term African as in “African woman”. For, as Ali Mazrui (1986) reminds us, we routinely differentiate between the continent “Africa”, which includes the regions north and south of the Sahara and the cultural and/or “racial” entity “Africa” which we restrict to SubSaharan Africa. As such, most of us will immediately equate an African wo/man with a “black” one, irrespective of the ways in which inhabitants from subSaharan African identify themselves. However, using too many stumbling stones risks turning a walking or reading route into a hurdle race and distracts from the original purpose. We should not deny, forget or neutralise Belgium’s material and immaterial colonial heritage any more than we should do with its history of antiJudaism and antiSemitism. But neither should we destroy or wall it in as it were. Instead, we can [use] little stumble blocks to remind and pay tribute to those who were subject to colonial violence in its various physical, psychological and social aspects.<ref>Bambi Cueppens in: Marc benoemt 's morgens de dingen (Verbindingen/Jonctions 9, 2009) http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/marc.pdf</ref></blockquote></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>I think that we would do well to treat Belgian immaterial and material colonial heritage in a similar way. The origins of the term “negroes”/”niggers”, “black” and “white” owe as much to the colonial past as the monuments erected for Leopold II and the Congo pioneers. In fact, the same can be said for the seemingly neutral term African as in “African woman”. For, as Ali Mazrui (1986) reminds us, we routinely differentiate between the continent “Africa”, which includes the regions north and south of the Sahara and the cultural and/or “racial” entity “Africa” which we restrict to SubSaharan Africa. As such, most of us will immediately equate an African wo/man with a “black” one, irrespective of the ways in which inhabitants from subSaharan African identify themselves. However, using too many stumbling stones risks turning a walking or reading route into a hurdle race and distracts from the original purpose. We should not deny, forget or neutralise Belgium’s material and immaterial colonial heritage any more than we should do with its history of antiJudaism and antiSemitism. But neither should we destroy or wall it in as it were. Instead, we can [use] little stumble blocks to remind and pay tribute to those who were subject to colonial violence in its various physical, psychological and social aspects.<ref>Bambi Cueppens in: Marc benoemt 's morgens de dingen (Verbindingen/Jonctions 9, 2009) http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/marc.pdf</ref></blockquote></div></td></tr>
</table>FShttps://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=L%E2%80%99Afrique_aux_%E2%80%B9noirs%E2%80%BA&diff=826&oldid=prevFS at 16:11, 13 February 20152015-02-13T16:11:59Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>I think that we would do well to treat Belgian immaterial and material colonial heritage in a similar way. The origins of the term  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>I think that we would do well to treat Belgian immaterial and material colonial heritage in a similar way. The origins of the term “negroes”/”niggers”, “black” and “white” owe as much to the colonial past as the monuments erected for Leopold II and the Congo pioneers. In fact, the same can be said for the seemingly neutral term African as in “African woman”. For, as Ali Mazrui (1986) reminds us, we routinely differentiate between the continent “Africa”, which includes the regions north and south of the Sahara and the cultural and/or “racial” entity “Africa” which we restrict to SubSaharan Africa. As such, most of us will immediately equate an African wo/man with a “black” one, irrespective of the ways in which inhabitants from subSaharan African identify themselves. However, using too many stumbling stones risks turning a walking or reading route into a hurdle race and distracts from the original purpose. We should not deny, forget or neutralise Belgium’s material and immaterial colonial heritage any more than we should do with its history of antiJudaism and antiSemitism. But neither should we destroy or wall it in as it were. Instead, we can [use] little stumble blocks to remind and pay tribute to those who were subject to colonial violence in its various physical, psychological and social aspects.<ref>Bambi Cueppens in: Marc benoemt 's morgens de dingen (Verbindingen/Jonctions 9, 2009) http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/marc.pdf</ref></blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>with its history of antiJudaism and antiSemitism. But neither should we destroy or wall it in as it were. Instead, we can [use] little stumble  </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>blocks to remind and pay tribute to those who were subject to colonial violence in its various physical, psychological and social  </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>L’Afrique aux ‹noirs› ! Telle donc l’œuvre à laquelle il nous faut travailler.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>L’Afrique aux ‹noirs› ! Telle donc l’œuvre à laquelle il nous faut travailler.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div class="intro">On <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">December 2014</del>, [http://efele.net/ebooks éfélé] re-published a 1888 pamphlet <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">written by a young Paul Otlet</del>, ''L'Afrique aux noirs''. Addressing 'his' king [Leopold II], Otlet suggests to 'repatriate' African-Amercian slaves, assuming that any claims to citizen rights <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the USA </del>would be impossible to obtain.</div></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div class="intro">On <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the eve of Otlet's oeuvre entering the Public Domain</ins>, [http://efele.net/ebooks éfélé] re-published a 1888 pamphlet, ''L'Afrique aux noirs''. Addressing 'his' king [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[person::</ins>Leopold II<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Paul </ins>Otlet <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">boldly </ins>suggests to 'repatriate' African-Amercian slaves <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to Africa</ins>, assuming that any claims to citizen rights would be impossible to obtain <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the USA, even after abolition</ins>.</div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The crisp electronic re-edition produces an interesting shift of context, and helps to understand his naivete and Eurocentrism in relation to the universalist imaginary that colors the later Mundaneum projects.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It is hard to imagine this pamphlet in context, hard to place his naivete and Eurocentrism. </del>As a first attempt <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">possible </del>re-reading, I insert '<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stumbling blocks' as Bambi Cueppens suggested in the e-pub 'reprinted</del>' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by éfélé</del>:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a first attempt <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to provide </ins>a re-reading, I insert '<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stumblingblocks</ins>':</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>L’Afrique aux ‹noirs› ! Telle donc l’œuvre à laquelle il nous faut travailler.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>L’Afrique aux ‹noirs› ! Telle donc l’œuvre à laquelle il nous faut travailler.</div></td></tr>
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