Themes

1. Texts on the Centre Æquatoria's history and ideology

• Colonial ethics: "The School of Coquilhatville"
• The missionaries' influence on Mongo national consciousness and political activism
• Renewal in the practical study of lomongo  [PDF, in French only]
• Unpublished manuscript by E. Boelaert on the ethnogenesis of the Mongo [PDF, in French only]

2. Colonial biographies, bibliographies and tables of colonial journals  [in French only]

• Bio-bibliographies of people
• Bibliographies of ethnic groups and languages
• Colonial journals: tables of contents et analytical tables
• Indices of periodicals published in Coquilhatville - Mbandaka

3. Geographical maps  [in French only]

• Introduction

4. Colonial correspondence  [in French only]

• Correspondence Kagame - Hulstaert
• Correspondence Devaux - Hulstaert
• Correspondence Sohier - Hulstaert
• Correspondence De Boeck - Hulstaert
• Correspondence Hulstaert - Bittremieux

5. Colonial history

• Anglo-Belgian Indian Rubber and Exploration Company ABIR, two unpublished texts by Edmond Boelaert

6.  Colonisation, African perspectives, resistance

• Iso la Bendele (We and the Whites): Considerations made by Congolese author Paul Ngoi in 1938 on the traditional life of the Mongo and their first confrontations with Belgian colonization, including the rubber exploitation
• Bongili: Congolese testimonies of the Leopoldian rubber exploitation. Surveys conducted by Edmond Boelaert between 1942 and 1947 among survivors
• Congolese testimonies, collected by Edmond Boelaert and Congolese collaborators in 1953, of the arrival of the first whites in the Equateur region, including accounts of the rubber exploitation
  • General introduction and French translations
  • The originals, in Lomongo, Lingala and other Congolese languages
• Colonial periodicals in African languages in the Æquatoria Archives   [in French only]
• A Kimbanguist propagandist at Kole in 1931 [in French only]
• First manifestations of Kimbanguism in and around Mbandaka (1954-1959)  [in French only]
• Resistance and collaboration at the beginning of the colonization in Mbandaka (1883-1893)  [in French only]
• Assimilation vs inculturation: Conflicts between the 'Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes' and the official inspection of the Coquilhatville Vicariat (1940-1945)  [in French only]

7. Mongo literature: Nsong'a Lianja  [in French only]

• Introduction
• Prolegomena
• The texte: Nsong'a Lianja  [PDF]
• Nsong'a Lianja in audio  [WAV]
• Nsong'a Lianja in images: Woodcuttings in the door to Æquatoria library

7b. Mongo literature: other

• Nkundo theatre (text by A. De Rop)

8. Colonial architecture and social geography: Mbandaka and others

• Mbandaka
• Coquilhatville  [in French only]
• Equateurville  [in French only]
• Others  [in French only]
• Photos   [in French only]

9. Colonial art  [in French only]

• Colonial painters (with images)
• Colonial literature

10. Linguistics, ethnology, and musicology

• Albert De Rop, 1956, Lomongo Syntax (Louvain)
• Albert De Rop, 1958, Lomongo Grammar: phonology and morphology (Lovanium)
• Albert De Rop, 1958, Lomongo historical phonoloy
• Honoré Vinck, 2016, Adaptation de la musique traditionnelle mongo (RDC) à l'usage liturgique et la création d'oratoires religieux. 1930-1960
• Honoré Vinck, 2023, Historiographie mongo (RDC): de l'oral à l'écrit

11. Documents related to protestantism in the Congo, 1902-1969

• Reports of the meetings of the Congo Missionary Conference and the Congo Protestant Council, 1902-1954