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Panda Farnana: The Forgotten Congolese Intellectual at Brussels 1900
In this episode, Lucas and Luna step away from the rubber atrocities and military campaigns to focus on one extraordinary figure who stood at the intersection of two worlds: Paul Panda Farnana. Born in the Congo Free State in 1888, he was brought to Belgium as a child, educated at the Royal Athenaeum in Antwerp, and later became the first Congolese university graduate in Belgium. At the 1900 Brussels International Exposition, where Congolese people were displayed in a 'human zoo', Panda Farnana worked as a translator and botanical assistant — but he also quietly documented the…
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