Métis of the Great Lakes MobLab

Informed by the insights garnered from our report, ‘‘70 Years of Fighting for Justice and Reparations: Mobilisations by '‘Métis’ People from the Great Lakes Region Abducted by the Belgian Colonial Administration’’,  this MobLab is dedicated to launching a strategy for an advocacy campaign demanding justice and reparations from the Belgian state for the Métis and their African mothers.

Led by our Advocacy and Policy Officer Geneviève Kaninda, this MobLab brings together members of the Collectif Métis represented by: 

  • Jacqui Goegebeur

  • Claudine Jadot

  • Rachel Kapombo of the Association des Enfants des Belges Laissés au Congo (AEBLC - DRC)

  • Yanine Karapatakis

  • Issa Niyongere of the Association des Métis des Grands Lacs (AMGL - Burundi)