AFRISURGE: Transformative Heritage: politics, peacebuilding and digital restitution of cultural heritage in contemporary Northeast DRCongo Ghent University
International aid and peacebuilding agencies active in Africa often rely on customary leaders to implement interventions in local communities. Their activities reflect functionalist, compartmentalized and rigid understandings of African leadership reminiscent of the colonial era when local leaders were co-opted for purposes of indirect rule. Western misconceptions often complicate rather than solve conflicts and humanitarian problems, and ...