Paper long abstract:

This paper discusses the presence of a cemetery in the city of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was a central point for the mining community in East Africa up until the 1960s. The cemetery houses distinct burial areas for Belgian, Greeks, Jews and other foreign-nationals who had lived, worked and died in this central African mining town. This paper explores how the cemetery is viewed and relates to Lubumbashi’s current city plan, and as importantly, how some former groups such as the Jewish community have built up ‘memory’-links with forebears who lived in this part of Central Africa.