FW-B | Colonial Sources

The e-classe platform of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FW-B) offers a set of subject-specific resources for teaching Belgian colonization in the classroom. It is organized around five themes: before colonization, the colonial period, colonial propaganda, collective memory, and opening dialogue.

Through a partnership with RTBF and SONUMA, the platform also provides audiovisual archives for classroom use (see also resource laplateforme.be).

Access to e-classe is restricted to teachers of the French Community of Belgium.

e-classe.be

Dossier sur la colonisation belge

Place & period

Precolonial (…-1885)

Congo Free State (1885-1908)

Belgian Congo (1908-1960)

Ruanda-Urundi (1919-1962)

DR Congo (1960-...)

Rwanda (1962-…)

Burundi (1962-…)

Theme

Governance

Decolonization

Diaspora

Economy

Heritage and memory

Gender

Violence

Independance

Education

Propaganda

Racism

Resistance

Type

Video

Documentary

Historical sources

Database

Testimony

Lesson package

Organisation

Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Language

French

Target audience

1st stage secondary

2nd stage secondary

3rd stage secondary

Duration

N/A

Films and Documentaries from the Belgian French Community

Laplateforme.be is an online platform that promotes and distributes audiovisual works produced in the French Community of Belgium, across all genres and formats.

The entire catalog – more than 1,000 Belgian films produced since 1952 – is freely accessible to teachers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (see also resource e-classe.be).

Several films and documentaries address the Belgian colonial episode in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda. Others delve into the former colonies' contemporary history, with echoes from the colonial past. Will you screen one of the movies or documentaries on offer in your class?

Laplateforme.be

Selection of works on (post)colonial history