30 June 2020. 60 years after formal Congolese Independence. The Belgian King *apologises* (edit: expresses regret for acts committed) for colonising the country (80 times its size). (1/3)

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. Independence Cha Cha No one says it better than Baloji. (Song w English subtitles) (3/3)

@BALOJI

Independence Cha Cha