Is Antwerp a divided city?

BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM - In June 2020, following protests in the United States, colonial heritage in Belgium became fiercely debated.

BRUSSELS - The 'Black Neighbourhoods' project is a result of the writing residence of the Flemish-Dutch organisation deBuren. While the authors were walking through Paris, they were both attracted to Château Rouge, an African neighbourhood immediately behind Montmartre. The positive sides but also the struggles of the neighborhood with gentrification and crime, reminded them of that other African neighbourhood, much closer to home: Matonge in Brussels. That was the start of a long search for the history, identity and future of black neighbourhoods in Europe.

LEDEBERG - Exploring and getting to know one’s neighbourhood on foot was a rare outlet for many during the Coronavirus crisis. Illustrator Jeroen Janssen and writer Arezoo Moradi set out in Ledeberg, their little patch of motorway-lined land in Ghent, and continue to do so. He draws, and she writes down, the stories of a neighbourhood bordered by motorways and railway lines.