Veranstaltungen

This lecture focuses on the experiences of women who became part of the East African trade caravan system in the late 19th century in what is today the Eastern DRCongo, whether it was through enslavement or marriage. While this history has been mostly narrated as explicitly male – not least because of colonial biases –, Margot Luyckfasseel argues that women were pivotal for the functioning of the caravan system.

Margot Luyckfasseel is Junior Research Professor in Modern African History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She specializes in Congolese history from below (late 19th century to present), with a thematic focus on urban dynamics, language ideologies, and (post)colonial power relations.