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"Debout Congolais" (Kongo: Telama besi Kongo; "Arise, Congolese") is the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was originally adopted in 1960 upon independence from Belgium but was replaced by "La Zaïroise" when the Congo changed its name to Zaire in 1971.
The National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Musée national de la République démocratique du Congo, or MNRDC) is a museum for the cultural history of the numerous ethnic groups and historical epochs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the capital Kinshasa.
Archives, Bibliothèques et Musées de Belgique (in Dutch). 21 (2). OCLC 2052930. (part 2 in v.22, no.1, 1951) Madeleine van Grieken-Taverniers (1955), Inventaire des archives des affaires étrangères de l'Etat indépendant du Congo et Ministère des colonies, 1885-1914 (PDF) (in French and Dutch), Académie Royale des Sciences Coloniales
From top: lead guitar; rhythm guitar; bass guitar. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Congolese rumba guitars were typically tuned to a "Hawaiian" open tuning (D-G-D-G-B-D), with musicians employing a capo to alter keys, producing a buzzing effect highly esteemed in the genre. [23]
The large central frieze in bas-relief is composed of three parts, which read both in French and Dutch: Les Explorateurs / de Ontdekkers (The Discoverers, right); le Missionnaire / de Zendeling (The Missionary, at the centre); and les Belges au Congo / de Belgen in Congoland (The Belgians in Congo, left).
Nowadays, its former buildings house the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), founded in 1877, which forms part of the group of Royal Museums for Art and History (RMAH). Located at 2, rue Montagne de la Cour / Hofberg on the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, the building stands next to the Place Royale/Koningsplein and across the street from the Magritte ...
The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) (French: Musée des instruments de musique; Dutch: Muziekinstrumentenmuseum) is a music museum in central Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) and is internationally renowned for its collection of over 8,000 instruments.
The Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference (French: Table ronde belgo-congolaise) was a meeting organized in two parts [1] in 1960 in Brussels (January 20 – February 20 [2] and April 26 – May 16 [3]) between on the one side representatives of the Congolese political class and chiefs (French: chefs coutumiers) and on the other side Belgian political and business leaders. [2]