https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇩" title="Flagge von Kongo - Kinshasa" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kongo - Kinshasa">30 June 2020. 60 years after formal Congolese Independence. The https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇧🇪" title="Flagge von Belgien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Belgien">Belgian King *apologises* (edit: expresses regret for acts committed) for colonising the country (80 times its size). (1/3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5_mspsqbc&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch...

These "apologies" are so overdue that there is no language, even, for thanking whomever finally deemed it time. I congratulate all Congolese and activists for Black Lives writ large, for getting us here in the past 6 decades. (2/3)

Here= the start of demanding repair - not aid - nor the end of a conversation on decolonial justice and anticolonial futures, but the formal beginning. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">Independence Cha Chahttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> No one says it better than Baloji. (Song w English subtitles) (3/3)

@BALOJI https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏿" title="Folded hands (dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (dunkler Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊🏿" title="Erhobene Faust (dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust (dunkler Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💕" title="Zwei Herzen" aria-label="Emoji: Zwei Herzen">

https://youtu.be/C4vc25TcIe0 ">https://youtu.be/C4vc25TcI... Independence Cha Cha