{"id":13159,"date":"2026-02-13T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/13159\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:19:06","slug":"en-belgique-les-archives-les-plus-precieuses-du-monde-aiguisent-les-appetits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/13159\/","title":{"rendered":"En Belgique, \u201cles archives les plus pr\u00e9cieuses du monde\u201d aiguisent les app\u00e9tits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cMais que cherchent Bill Gates et Jeff Bezos dans la cave du mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Afrique\u00a0?\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.demorgen.be\/nieuws\/wat-bill-gates-en-jeff-bezos-zoeken-in-een-kelder-van-het-africamuseum~bdfc8496\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">s\u2019interroge De Morgen<\/a>. Situ\u00e9 \u00e0 la lisi\u00e8re de Bruxelles, \u00e0 Tervuren, ce mus\u00e9e, construit \u00e0 l\u2019origine comme vitrine de la lucrative et sanguinaire colonie belge au Congo, a entre-temps subi des travaux destin\u00e9s \u00e0 le rendre moins colonial.<\/p>\n<p>Il abrite de riches collections, dont quelque 500\u00a0m\u00e8tres lin\u00e9aires de rayonnages d\u2019archives l\u00e9gu\u00e9es \u201cpar les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s mini\u00e8res belges actives en Afrique au si\u00e8cle dernier, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lesoir.be\/728256\/article\/2026-02-11\/les-archives-du-musee-de-lafrique-aiguisent-lappetit-de-societes-privees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pr\u00e9cise Le Soir.<\/a>\u00a0Des \u00e9tudes, cartes, relev\u00e9s miniers effectu\u00e9s dans divers pays d\u2019Afrique centrale \u2013 R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo [RDC], bien s\u00fbr, mais aussi Burundi, Rwanda et d\u2019autres pays d\u2019Afrique.\u201d Or ces archives \u201caiguisent l\u2019app\u00e9tit de soci\u00e9t\u00e9s priv\u00e9es\u201d, souligne le journal belge dans le titre de l\u2019article.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rtbf.be\/article\/tintin-au-pays-des-archives-pourquoi-les-millions-d-archives-belges-de-l-africa-museum-interessent-bill-gates-et-les-americains-11678579\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Comme l\u2019explique Bart Ouvry, directeur du mus\u00e9e, \u00e0 la RTBF<\/a>, \u201cIl s\u2019agit de documents tr\u00e8s vari\u00e9s qui font parfois \u00e9tat de la pr\u00e9sence de minerais qui n\u2019\u00e9taient pas tr\u00e8s recherch\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque mais qui le sont aujourd\u2019hui. Il suffit de penser au contenu de nos ordinateurs et\u00a0smartphones \u2013 certaines mati\u00e8res rares ont beaucoup de valeur, et les infos qui s\u2019y rapportent aussi, m\u00eame si elles sont anciennes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Accord de Kinshasa n\u00e9cessaire <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCes archives ne sont pas secr\u00e8tes, pr\u00e9cise le m\u00e9di<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMais que cherchent Bill Gates et Jeff Bezos dans la cave du mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Afrique\u00a0?\u201d s\u2019interroge De Morgen.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,219,1900,18,836,835,834],"class_list":{"0":"post-13159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-afrique","9":"tag-belgique","10":"tag-colonisation","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-minerais","13":"tag-ru00e9p-du00e9m-du-congo-rdc","14":"tag-u00e9conomie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrique\/116064469897890216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}