Links

Royal Society of Edinburgh website:

Amnesty International (2025):

‘Systematically abducting and deporting children is a crime against humanity’

The Guardian (2024):

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo’

BBC (2019):

‘Belgium apology for mixed-race kidnappings in colonial era’

VRT (2026):

‘Belgium convicted of removing mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo’

Alice Urusaro Uwagaga Karekezi’s research profile:

John McInally’s research profile:

Nicki Hitchcott’s research profile:

St Andrews article on Nicki Hitchcott and our project:

Africa Museum, Tervuren:

Afropean Project website:
Conciliare Project website:

‘Résolution-Métis’ research project website:

https://metis.arch.be

State Archives of Belgium website:

https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=en

Jonas d’Adesky’s IMDb profile:
Jonas d’Adesky’s Vimeo page:

Kazungu, le métis – Georges Kamanayo Gengoux (2000)

Bons baisers de la colonie – Nathalie Borgers (2011)

RFI podcast (2026):

Les mères oubliées de la colonisation belge : «Je l’appelais Papa»