What if Congolese masks and statues, imprisoned behind glass, could speak back? What would they say? In this essay film, Aimé Césaire’s sharp critique of Discours sur le colonialisme, published in 1950, is being translated for the first time in Lingala, the lingua franca spoken in north-west of Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Congo, in Angola and in Central African Republic.

Matondo Matondo (Katako Kombe 1925) is the name of a decolonial eco-feminist

collective practicing artistic sabotage and spectral counter-modelling.