The summer edition of the Flemish magazine Rekto Verso has been edited by Sibo Kanobana, Sachka Vincent, Matthias De Groof and Laura Nsengiyumva.

It challenges those who visit the Museum of Tervuren to see it as a possessed house, animated by the ghosts of colonial witchcraft. It is an attempt at exorcism, with imagination as the (out) driving force. Can we think new Tervurens, plural?

With essays, proza, poetry, conversations and more.

Juist to mention one contribution: In ‘The Kakungu mask. Restitution and the road to reparation, Baudoin Mena Sebu and Sibo Kanobana argue about this ceremonial object with its puffy cheeks and prominent chin:

• The robbery of the Kakungu mask caused rift between generations within a community.
• When we approach restitution as part of reparation, it involves much more than the transfer of objects or a reparation payment.
• Restitution becomes a gesture that acknowledges structural inequality and historical damage: the destruction of social structures, the loss of cultural practices, the interruption of intergenerational knowledge transfer, and the enduring economic, political and social inequalities that have resulted from colonial plunder.