(en) Very few of the first Congolese students in Belgium attended Belgian higher education before the independence of the Republic of Congo. This can be explained in particular by the general education policy pursued by the Belgian authorities in their colony (1885-1960). Through their presence on university campuses and their mobilisation in the Belgian public and media space, these students not only became actors in the decolonisation of the Congo, but they also familiarised the people of Brussels with the existence of sub-Saharan communities in the Belgian capital.
Landmeters, R. (2021). Les étudiants congolais à Bruxelles dans les années 1950. Acteurs de la décolonisation et avant-gardes des diasporas. Diasporas : circulations, migrations, histoire, 37, 23-39. https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.6684 (Original work published 2021)