Michée Diansana

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Michée DIANSANA is a PhD candidate in African Studies affiliated with Ghent University and the University of Kinshasa. He was trained at the University of Kinshasa, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Population History, Urban Planning, and Development, as well as a master’s degree in Cultural History. His research focuses on colonial archives, memory, and the socio-cultural dynamics shaped by colonial processes in the Congo. Since 2023, he has been involved in the Congolines project, where he studies the figure of Albert Lubaki through a critical socio-historical approach. His work examines processes of silencing, invisibility, and fragmentation in colonial knowledge production, with particular attention to how the identity of African artists was constructed, mediated, and obscured through archival and oral sources. He is a member of the Congo Research Network (CRN) and the Central Africa Studies Association (CASA). He has also published on the use of photography as a tool for denouncing colonial violence, notably through an analysis of the work of Alice Seeley Harris.