Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

Colonial Hell in Africa

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/colonial-hell-in-africa-99c347db124c

In 1959-60, Lorraine Hansberry was exploring the genocidal colonial situation in Black Africa, mostly the ex-Belgian Congo that was still Belgian then. The diagnosis was catastrophic and deprived of any hope whatsoever. Have things changed? Has the West changed policies? My question. Your answer.

Robert Nemiroff collected three plays, two dealing with the Black Curse in America: Les Blancs and the brutal European colonization of Africa, and we know the end of it; The Drinking Gourd and the curse of slavery for both the slaves and the slaveowners at the beginning of the Civil War, and we know the end of it; What Use Are Flowers and the curse of humanity before, during and after a nuclear cataclysm, or should we call it a nuclear Holocaust? And we know the end of it.

Right now there is like a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s plays in the USA, on Broadway particularly. The fourth play on this curse of the Blacks in America or elsewhere in the world, and the curse of humanity under the mismanagement of the Western Whites, is the M.L.Kingian dream of the Black hard-working working-class being able to move from the ghetto to a white neighborhood is not included. It is A Raisin in the Sun, and that dream could only be a dream in 1959. No way, in this direction, desegregating neighborhoods.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023