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      • 23/05: Women of African Independence
      • 18/05: Nakba Herdenking 2025
      • 15/05: 100 Years Malcolm X: His Legacy for Black and Muslim Communities
      • 04/05: Anton de Kom - 4 mei herdenking 2025
      • 24/04: Listening session: Sudanese Resistance Music
      • 10/04 Booklaunch: Verdronken vrijheid
      • 05/04 TBA Community Tour
      • 30/3: ‘Transition ceremony: CAPE x NL’
      • 18/03 Filmscreening: Reimagining Okanisi Perspectives
      • 07/03 Echoes of In*dependence: De nalatenschap van Ghanese Independence
      • De pen als wapen: Een avond over schrijvers Anton de Kom en Nele Mariam
      • 23/1: TBA X Africadelic: Patrice Lumumba Day '25
      • 13/12: Black Soil X The Black Archives X All Things Africa X HipHopHuis
      • 14/12: Decolonial Conversations
      • 30/11 Heritage Stories II - Echoes of the Past
      • 24/11: Casa di Cabral Conversa: “The People Are Our Mountains”
      • 3,9,23/11 Free Your Mind
      • 16/11 + 30/11 Heritage Stories - Echoes of the Past
      • 16/11 Heritage Stories I - Echoes of the Past
      • 15/11: 10 jaar KOZP: 10 jaar KOZP: een decennium tegen Zwarte Piet en racisme
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      • 3/11 Free Your Mind I - Echoes of the Past
      • 2/11: MuseumN8 - Black Joy: Justice Through Resistance​
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      • 28/9: Black Queer Archive
      • 16/9: Workshop Ankaa Heling - Dr. Joy DeGruy
      • 13/9: Opening - Pop-up Expo 'Casa di Cabral'
      • 3/8 Community Tour in The Black Archives en Archive Sale!
      • 1/7 TBA x Keti Koti festival 2024
      • 27/6: Congo is Bleeding -Community Gathering
      • 20/6: Lezing Black Heritage x Richenel Ansano x TBA
      • 12/6: Poetry workshop: Owning Your Story through Creative Writing & Performance
      • 9/6: Boekpresentatie 'De toekomst van het verleden'
      • 25/5: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation - Community Gathering
      • 05/05: Vrijheid voor wie..?
      • 25/4: Solidarity Sudan - Community Gathering
      • 19/4 - Film Screening: Black Joy
      • 4/4 - Presentatie rapport: Route naar Herstel
      • 25/3 -Workshop: Adrian Van Wyk
      • 6/3: Opening The Black Archives (Bijlmer)
      • 6/3: Embracing Ghanaian Independence Day
      • 22/2: Anton de Komdag 'Community Gathering' (try-out)
      • 16/12 Eindfeest expositie ‘Geen heling, zonder herstel’
      • 1/12 TBA Talk: Boekbespreking 'Bonaire, een koloniale zoutgeschiedenis'
      • 25/11 TBA Talk: ‘Kaási de rebellenleider’
      • 9/11 - Town hall sessie over herdenkingsjaar met NCDR
      • 19/6 Collegetour over Doorwerking Slavernijverleden
      • OOSTCAST: wandelroute & podcast
      • 10/5 Afrospirituality in the Everyday
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      • 22/4 BLACK_ women podcast
      • 9/3 Vrouwen van Suriname / Oema Foe Sranan
      • 12/3 Talk: Boto Banja met Raoul de Jong
      • 18/3 'Zwart Op Wit' Boekpresentatie
      • 3/2 Film Screening 'What The Soil Remembers'
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        • OPEN CALL: Manifesting the Manifesto
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      • Erken 1 Juli Als Nationale Dag! #1juli
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      • 2/4/22: Publieksopening Zwartheid Onder Ogen Zien | Facing Blackness
      • 29/4/22: Booklaunch ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’'
      • 21/3 2022: Townhall Sessie NCDR Anti
      • Expositie: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
      • Open oproep: DSGN-IN - Bijlmer Dossier
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      • All Power To The People Reading List
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        • 8/10: Black Professional Meeting 2021
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        • M1 (Dead Prez) - Bigger Than HipHop Q&A
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        • Books & BBQ festival 2019
        • Keti Koti 2019 x The Black Archives
        • 'Books We Share, That Make Us Care'
        • 100 jaar vereniging Ons Suriname festival
        • 27/8 HIER. Zwart in Amsterdam
        • 45 Jaar Srefidensi online special
        • 18/10 Why Freedom Could't Wait
        • Lancering poster Tien keer meer geschiedenis
        • 30 Mei 1969 - Trinta di Mei
        • The Black Vote
        • Debate Venice Biennale: The Measurement of Presence
        • Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
        • Books & BBQ festival 2018
        • Reimagining the Black Body
        • Retelling Black Radicalism w/ Kehinde Andrews
        • Docu Daddy & the Warlord
        • Fort Nieuw Amsterdam: gedeeld cultureel erfgoed
        • Summer Reading Sessions on Black Radical Thought
        • 5/10 De Verzwegen Geschiedenis van Zwart Verzet
        • 13-18 mei: Angela Davis & Gina Dent
        • De Zwarte Lijst
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Anton de Kom
        • Lezing Philomena Essed
        • Gloria Wekker - Witte Onschuld
        • 1 juli: The Black Archives x Keti Koti: launch crowdfunding campagne!
        • Past exhibitions >
          • Exhibition: Facing Blackness
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          • Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
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      • TBA x Keti Koti 2025
      • 26/06: Echoes of Independence: De nalatenschap van Congolese onafhankelijkheid
      • 14/06: 10 jaar The Black Archives
      • 23/05: Women of African Independence
      • 18/05: Nakba Herdenking 2025
      • 15/05: 100 Years Malcolm X: His Legacy for Black and Muslim Communities
      • 04/05: Anton de Kom - 4 mei herdenking 2025
      • 24/04: Listening session: Sudanese Resistance Music
      • 10/04 Booklaunch: Verdronken vrijheid
      • 05/04 TBA Community Tour
      • 30/3: ‘Transition ceremony: CAPE x NL’
      • 18/03 Filmscreening: Reimagining Okanisi Perspectives
      • 07/03 Echoes of In*dependence: De nalatenschap van Ghanese Independence
      • De pen als wapen: Een avond over schrijvers Anton de Kom en Nele Mariam
      • 23/1: TBA X Africadelic: Patrice Lumumba Day '25
      • 13/12: Black Soil X The Black Archives X All Things Africa X HipHopHuis
      • 14/12: Decolonial Conversations
      • 30/11 Heritage Stories II - Echoes of the Past
      • 24/11: Casa di Cabral Conversa: “The People Are Our Mountains”
      • 3,9,23/11 Free Your Mind
      • 16/11 + 30/11 Heritage Stories - Echoes of the Past
      • 16/11 Heritage Stories I - Echoes of the Past
      • 15/11: 10 jaar KOZP: 10 jaar KOZP: een decennium tegen Zwarte Piet en racisme
      • 9/11 Free Your Mind II - Echoes of the Past
      • 3/11 Free Your Mind I - Echoes of the Past
      • 2/11: MuseumN8 - Black Joy: Justice Through Resistance​
      • 27/10: Casa di Cabral tour: Verhalen van Morabeza en de Kracht van Community
      • 18/10: Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free Gathering:
      • 28/9: Black Queer Archive
      • 16/9: Workshop Ankaa Heling - Dr. Joy DeGruy
      • 13/9: Opening - Pop-up Expo 'Casa di Cabral'
      • 3/8 Community Tour in The Black Archives en Archive Sale!
      • 1/7 TBA x Keti Koti festival 2024
      • 27/6: Congo is Bleeding -Community Gathering
      • 20/6: Lezing Black Heritage x Richenel Ansano x TBA
      • 12/6: Poetry workshop: Owning Your Story through Creative Writing & Performance
      • 9/6: Boekpresentatie 'De toekomst van het verleden'
      • 25/5: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation - Community Gathering
      • 05/05: Vrijheid voor wie..?
      • 25/4: Solidarity Sudan - Community Gathering
      • 19/4 - Film Screening: Black Joy
      • 4/4 - Presentatie rapport: Route naar Herstel
      • 25/3 -Workshop: Adrian Van Wyk
      • 6/3: Opening The Black Archives (Bijlmer)
      • 6/3: Embracing Ghanaian Independence Day
      • 22/2: Anton de Komdag 'Community Gathering' (try-out)
      • 16/12 Eindfeest expositie ‘Geen heling, zonder herstel’
      • 1/12 TBA Talk: Boekbespreking 'Bonaire, een koloniale zoutgeschiedenis'
      • 25/11 TBA Talk: ‘Kaási de rebellenleider’
      • 9/11 - Town hall sessie over herdenkingsjaar met NCDR
      • 19/6 Collegetour over Doorwerking Slavernijverleden
      • OOSTCAST: wandelroute & podcast
      • 10/5 Afrospirituality in the Everyday
      • 12/5 Books & Bites Festival: Eindfeest TBA
      • 22/4 BLACK_ women podcast
      • 9/3 Vrouwen van Suriname / Oema Foe Sranan
      • 12/3 Talk: Boto Banja met Raoul de Jong
      • 18/3 'Zwart Op Wit' Boekpresentatie
      • 3/2 Film Screening 'What The Soil Remembers'
      • 5/11 Museumnacht @ TBA
      • 21/10 Black Business Meeting 2022
      • 14/10: Hoe Dapper was Vrolik? Hoe Vrolik was Dapper?
      • Expo: Zwart Manifest @ OSCAM >
        • 4/3 2022: Finissage Zwart Manifest Expo
        • OPEN CALL: Manifesting the Manifesto
      • 30/9: Safe spacesessie met Jilllian Emanuels
      • 1/7 Keti Koti special @ Keti Koti festival Oosterpark
      • Erken 1 Juli Als Nationale Dag! #1juli
      • 2/7: DSGN-IN symposium: Pilot Bijlmer Dossier
      • 2/4/22: Publieksopening Zwartheid Onder Ogen Zien | Facing Blackness
      • 29/4/22: Booklaunch ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’'
      • 21/3 2022: Townhall Sessie NCDR Anti
      • Expositie: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
      • Open oproep: DSGN-IN - Bijlmer Dossier
      • TBA Muur van Zwarte & Surinaamse helden
      • All Power To The People Reading List
      • Reeds geweest >
        • 6/11 Museumnacht: Black Joy As A Form Of Resistance
        • 8/10: Black Professional Meeting 2021
        • Expo 'Surinaamse School' @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
        • TBA x Sonsbeek: Sound Waves of Resistance
        • Expo: Zwarte Beweging: #BlackLivesMatterNL
        • 25/9 Verzwegen Verzet: de zmv-beweging
        • 9/4 The Hidden History of The Moors @ Museum het Rembrandthuis
        • 19/1 101 jaar Ons Suriname festival
        • 15/10: Boekpresentatie Antonlogie >
          • Anton de Kom Schrijfwedstrijd
        • M1 (Dead Prez) - Bigger Than HipHop Q&A
        • 22/2 Memre Anton de Kom | Herinner Anton de Kom
        • Books & BBQ festival 2019
        • Keti Koti 2019 x The Black Archives
        • 'Books We Share, That Make Us Care'
        • 100 jaar vereniging Ons Suriname festival
        • 27/8 HIER. Zwart in Amsterdam
        • 45 Jaar Srefidensi online special
        • 18/10 Why Freedom Could't Wait
        • Lancering poster Tien keer meer geschiedenis
        • 30 Mei 1969 - Trinta di Mei
        • The Black Vote
        • Debate Venice Biennale: The Measurement of Presence
        • Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
        • Books & BBQ festival 2018
        • Reimagining the Black Body
        • Retelling Black Radicalism w/ Kehinde Andrews
        • Docu Daddy & the Warlord
        • Fort Nieuw Amsterdam: gedeeld cultureel erfgoed
        • Summer Reading Sessions on Black Radical Thought
        • 5/10 De Verzwegen Geschiedenis van Zwart Verzet
        • 13-18 mei: Angela Davis & Gina Dent
        • De Zwarte Lijst
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Anton de Kom
        • Lezing Philomena Essed
        • Gloria Wekker - Witte Onschuld
        • 1 juli: The Black Archives x Keti Koti: launch crowdfunding campagne!
        • Past exhibitions >
          • Exhibition: Facing Blackness
          • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
          • Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
        • Expo: Onze * Tori (2018)
  • Exposities
    • Open Call: Echoes of In*dependence
    • Pop-up Expositie 'Nobody is Free, Until Everybody is Free''
    • Exposities (Geweest) >
      • Pop-up expositie 'Nobody Is Free, Until Everybody Is Free' @ Anton de Komplein
      • Exhibition CAPE x NL @ Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
      • Pop-up Expositie 'Casa di Cabral'
      • Expositie 'Pop-up Expositie Dynamics of the Diaspora: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation
      • Expositie 'Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen' | Facing Blackness Den Haag
      • Geen Punt | Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel >
        • Geen Punt | Deel je mening
      • Expo: Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel
      • Expo: CAPE x Utrecht >
        • Column: South Africans also have the right to Dutch apologies and reparations for slavery
      • BLACK - the Expo
      • Expo Manspasi: een verbonden geschiedenis van strijd in Suriname en Nederland
      • Expo: Facing Blackness | Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen
      • Expositie: 100 jaar Surinamers in Nederland
      • Pop-up expo 'Ga Terug En Haal Het' met Clarice Gargard
      • Documenta 15 x TBA
      • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
      • Expo: Zwart & Revolutionair
  • Diensten
    • Rondleidingen
    • Ruimteverhuur
  • Webshop
    • Adviesrapport: Route Naar Herstel
    • Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel: Tentoonstellingscatalogus
    • Waldo Heilbron - De toekomst van het verleden
    • Anton de Kom - Wij Slaven van Suriname
    • Interwoven histories t-shirt
    • Poster '10x meer geschiedenis'
    • Antonlogie
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About us
    • The Black Archives will move (temporarily)
    • FAQ
    • Open Call: Echoes of In*dependence
  • Donate
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    • Pop-up exposition 'Nobody Is Free, Until Everybody Is Free' @ Anton de Komplein
    • Pop-up Expositie 'Nobody is Free, Until Everybody is Free''
    • Expositions (Past) >
      • Exhibition 'Pop-up Expositie Casa di Cabral
      • Exhibition CAPE x NL @ Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town >
        • Bradley van Sitters
      • No Full Stop | No Healing, Without Repair >
        • No Full Stop | Share your opinion
      • Exhibition: No Healing, Without Repair >
        • Translation | Exhibition: No Healing, Without Repair
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25/10: ​online event 'The erased history of slavery in the Cape and the need for reparations'

In December 2022, Prime Minister Rutte offered his apologies on behalf of the Dutch State. On July 1, 2023 the King apologized as well. These apologies were historic and an important form of recognition for the Dutch role in slavery. However, South Africa was not even mentioned in this apology. Who remembers the history of Indian Ocean slavery? How does this history affect people in current-day South Africa? And why is this history largely forgotten in the Netherlands?

For thousands of years, |xam, Khoekhoe, and many other peoples lived in Southern Africa. From 1652, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a colonial settlement in the Cape, which by 1658 relied completely on an inhumane system of slavery, one that also linked Utrecht to the Cape. This history laid the foundation for the cruel system of apartheid, which is a Dutch word.

During the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands, the perpetrators of slavery received a form of ‘compensation’, rather than the victims. Reparations have been given to victims of inhumane crimes in other instances. However, when it comes to Transatlantic and Indian Ocean slavery, it is often seen as an ‘uncomfortable’ topic.

On October 25th 2023 we will engage in an online trans-Atlantic conversation with Diane Ferrus (poet), Panashe Chigumadzi (writer), Calvyn Gilfellan (CEO Castle of Good Hope), Nancy Jouwe (cultural historian) and Mitchell Esajas (co-founder The Black Archives) about the erased history of VOC slavery in the Cape and its legacy. We will also talk about the meaning of the apology and what healing and reparations could mean in the context of the Cape.
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When? Wednesday October 25th 2023
Where? Online
Time? 7 - 8.30 PM

This event is part of the public program of the exhibitions 'CAPE x UTRECHT' & 'No Healing, Without Repair'

CAPE X UTRECHT: hidden histories of Slavery & its afterlives is a collaborative project of HKU fellow Nancy Jouwe and The Black Archives. The exhibition features unique archival material and art works by Jasper Albinus, Diana Ferrus, Neo Muyanga, Shishani Vranckx, Judith Westerveld, alumna HKU Photography Farren van Wyk, and Carine Zaayman.

Live stream


Diana Ferrus – I've come to take you home

Diana Ferrus (Western Cape, 1953) started writing poetry at the age of 14. While doing the Gender Studies program at Utrecht University in 1998, she wrote her most famous poem for Sarah Baartman, ’I’ve come to take you home’. Khoekhoe woman Sarah Baartman was born on August 9, 1789 in the Gamtoos Valley and was brought to Europe from the Cape. In London she was put on display after which she ended up in Paris. After her death, her remains were put on display in the Musée de l’Homme until 1986. The poem’s impact helped return Baartman’s remains to South-Africa.


Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer, scholar, and cultural historian writing across gender, geography and generation in her exploration of themes ranging from race, religion and spirituality, to African Philosophy and Cosmology, Black Consciousness, Black Feminism, Black Internationalism and Pan-Africanism, to the afterlives of settler colonialism, Transatlantic Slavery, global (anti-)Blackness, and the indignity of Black life under crippling poverty and violence. Chigumadzi is the author of These Bones Will Rise Again  (2018). She is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University’s Departments of African and African American Studies and History, and holds a masters degree in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand.


 Panashe Chigumadz,  Marcus Tebogo Desando and Jerry Afriyie delivered the 4th ZAM Nelson Mandela Lecture on 5 February, 2023, in the International Theatre Amsterdam.

More about Panashe

Calvyn Gilfellan

Mr. Calvyn Gilfellan is the CEO of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, the Castle of Good Hope was built between 1664 and 1679 and is one of the oldest existing European structures in South Africa.
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