Culture & Society

Scientific personnel

• Jacky Maniacky, Head of Human Sciences Department
  Linguistics, description and comparison of Bantu languages, Bantu linguistic heritage outside Africa (Latin America, USA)
• Sisa Calapi
• Bambi Ceuppens, Anthropologist
  Congolese popular culture in Congo and Belgium, Congolese diaspora in Belgium, Belgo-Congolese history in Belgium and Congo
• Maud Devos, Linguist
  Description and comparison of Bantu languages. Early history of Swahili (Mozambique) and continuing expansion (DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi)
• Felix Amand Fufulafu Zaniwe
• Rémy Jadinon, Ethnomusicologist
  Contextualization of Central African music traditions, popular repertoire of Mitsogho ngombi harps in Gabon
• Alzenir Mendes Martins de Menez
• Sarah O'Neill, Medical Anthropologist
  FEDTWIN Diaspofood Project
• Cristiana Panella, Social anthropologist
  Informal and illegal transnational trade, West Africa, Italy, and transnational connections
• Diana SALAKHEDDIN, Anthropologist
• Vicky Van Bockhaven
• Hein Vanhee, Historian
  Precolonial and colonial history of Central Africa, interaction of local chiefs with the colonial government and missions
• On Ying Adilia Yip

Technical and administrative staff

• Muriel Garsou, Administrative Assistant
• Diane Tonnoeyr, Administrative Assistant

Volunteers

• Frank Simoens
• Krisztina Szenczi
• Anaïs Verhulst

Linguistics

• Bantu Lexical Reconstructions
  With nearly 10,000 entries and counting, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions is the world’s largest lexical database on the Bantu proto-language. Its updates depend directly on developments in comparative linguistics research.
   
• Comparative Pottery Vocabulary Database
  This database offers an extensive collection of pottery vocabulary in the Bantu languages. 
   
• Lexicostatistic study of Bantu languages
  Data collected for:
  Bastin Y., Coupez A. & Mann M. 1999. Continuity and Divergence in the Bantu languages: perspectives from a lexicostatistic study. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa. 

Musicology

• Musical instruments 
  Consult our musical instruments. This entire collection was digitised and published online as part of the MIMO (Musical Instrument Museums Online) project.
   
• Audio recordings
  DEKKMMA, database of the museum’s sound archives. 

Social anthropology

The regularly updated RMCA Social Sciences and Humanities Documentation Centre (Centre de Documentation en Sciences Humaines et Sociales du MRAC) offers more than 50,000 references to articles and works that have been read and analysed. 
 

Art

Modern plastic arts in Lubumbashi

• Africana Linguistica
  An international peer-reviewed journal. 
   
• Tervuren Series for African Language Documentation and Description
  Scientific collection for the dissemination of knowledge on African languages. 
   
• Documents on Social Sciences and Humanities
  Works of researchers, inventories and doctoral theses, in open access.

• Stemmen van Afrika
  Stemmen van Afrika is a website about African languages, created by a team of linguists and Africa experts. The website is in Dutch.