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Colonial History | Contemporary History | Agricultural and Forest Economy

Contemporary History Section

Head of section : T. Tréfon

The Contemporary History Section is a new section of the Museum's History Department. The section is made from the integration into the Royal Museum for Central Africa of the Africa Institute, a public institution created in 1992, that incorporated the Africa Study and Documentation Centre (ASDOC), a non-profit organisation established in 1971.

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Museumlaan 5B, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium (Finance Building, Floor -1 // Building G on the map)
Phone: +32 (0) 2/769 58 45 - Fax : +32 (0)2/769 58 21
E-mail : africa.institute@africamuseum.be
Online library catalogue : http://www.metafro.be/libraries/contemporary_history

Objectives

The Contemporary History section's objective is threefold: documentation, publication and research.
Its activities focus on the former Belgian Africa, more specifically Congo/Kinshasa.

Staff

T. Trefon, Section's head
- Biographical information and publications
Erik Kennes, researcher, politologist
Recruitment and trajectory of the Congolese political elites
Dr. Jean Omasombo Tshonda, researcher, politologist
Political History of the Congo during the recent years
The Congolese rebellions
Edwine Simons
In charge of documentation management and assistant editor of the Cahiers africains
Lore Van De Broeck, secretary

Contemporary History section (Africa Institute - ASDOC)
Last update : March 2007
edwine.simons@africamuseum.be

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