It is accompanied by a generously illustrated publication edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and featuring nineteen scholarly essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers. Amanda M. Maples joined the North Carolina Museum of Art as its first full-time Curator of African Art in 2018. She previously was a curatorial fellow in African and Indigenous American Arts at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center and also served in curatorial

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Sandrine Colard uses the photographs in her family photo album to tell the story of her mother leaving the Congo, of her studies in Europe, and then meeting and getting married to Colard’s Belgian father. She explores the difficulties her mother faced as a young woman migrating to a new country and the cultural attitudes towards her mother and father’s interracial marriage. Colard compares photographs of herself as both a student and a professional with those of her parents on their wedding day and reflects on her family’s past.

One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flâneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia.