Apologies

This week I heard our Prime Minister’s apologies. A lot has changed since I wrote a text for a booklet about the Slave Castle Elmina in Ghana in 2002. In it I said that the history of the Dutch slave trade was largely swept under the carpet. That booklet, subsidized by the Dutch government, was published because of my exhibition of paintings there in the Governor’s Room. Read the text here: https://www.robvandoeselaar.nl/elmina