The Royal Music of the Central Africa has an almost comprehensive photo of the center of information and documentation of the Belgian Congo and the Ruanda-Urundi, better known under The name of Inforcongo. This service was background; to the purpose of the 50s by the ministry of the colonies to promote a positive image of colonial enterprise. A large number of photographs relate to the matters of the colonizer, while others illustrate the deep transformations & social and social in social Congolese. The collection also includes a remarkable feature of traditional dances photos. These are characterized by the tension which has been given between r & acute; and the fiction and their ambiguous priest; & agrave; & laquo; the authenticit & eacute; & Raquo;.

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the traditional dances and rituals that they wanted & laquo; D & Eacute; Cover & Raquo; and document have, however, have the same; organized on their own initiative. They were in this by the territorial agents or by the missionaries and they had a special budget to sponsor the prese; In order to ensure a recording & laquo; Objectif & raquo;, all the elevations which were the sultate of the importation or of the European influence were deleted before the time of the Cam & Eacate; This was estimated to be the fact to guarantee the images of their ritable authenticit & éacute;. This is how a large number of traditional dances have not been D & Eacute; r & éacute; Now, the photos were catalogs as scientific documentation and are today often consulted as objective documents of the poque, without these making the object of an analysis of an analysis criticism.