This article explores questions of decolonization, in part through analyzing Belgium’s Africa Museum. Bernal considers the role of academia and knowledge production, as well as the technological developments that may create new concentrations of power faster than decolonial projects can dismantle established hierarchies. She concludes that decolonization must address material questions of reparations and restitution, and that digital media have been transformative in ways that bring northern models of social existence closer to African ones. Having lived under colonizers, despots, and states of exception, Africans bring important knowledge and experience to twenty-first-century global struggles.

本文探讨非殖民化问题，部分是通过分析比利时的非洲博物馆。伯纳尔（Bernal）认为学术界和知识生产的作用以及技术发展可能创造出新的权力集中度，这要比殖民主义项目能够摧毁已建立的等级制度更快。她的结论是，非殖民化必须解决赔偿和赔偿的实质性问题，数字媒体已经发生了变革，使北方社会存在模式更接近非洲模式。非洲人生活在殖民者，专制国家和例外状态下，为21世纪的全球斗争带来了重要的知识和经验。