Doctor in theology, former director of the "Centre Æquatoria - Centre de recherches culturelles africanistes" (Bamanya), Mbandaka (DR Congo). Member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences.
Colonial history, history of education in Belgian Congo
Honoré Vinck (Baasrode / Dendermonde 1941) lived and worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1972 and 1999 as a Catholic missionary and as director of the Æquatoria Research Center and founder and editor in chief of the Annales Aequatoria (1980-1999)in Mbandaka (RDC). He stayed as a fellow of The Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities at the Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) (1994-1995) He was a member of the Centrum voor Historische Pedagogiek at the KU Leuven (2006-2018).
His research and publications focus on African colonial schoolbooks, the history of school education in the former Belgian Congo and Land Tenure in Colonial Congo.
Key publications
Boelaert, E., Vinck, H., & Lonkama, Ch., (1995-1996). Arrivée des Blancs sur les bords des rivières équatoriales du Zaire. Annales Aequatoria, 16 Partie I, 13-134; 17 Partie II, 7-415.
Vinck, H., (2012). Ideology in missionary scholarly knowledge in the Belgian Congo. Aequatoria, a Centre de recherches africanistes at the Mission Station of Bamanya, (R.D.C.) 1937 – 2007. In Maxwell, D. & Harries, P. (Ed.), The secular in the spiritual: Missionaries and knowledge about Africa, (Studies in the History of Christian Missions). Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans. (pp. 221-244). DOI: 10.1163/1572543X-12341276
Vinck, H. (2011). Conflits fonciers au Congo belge. Opinions congolaises. Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen – Académie royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Brussel, (Fontes Historiae Africanae- Boek 4, 486 p).
Vinck, H. (2009). Manuels scolaires coloniaux africains. 26 textes traduits en français, Annales Aequatoria 30, 5-618.
Vinck, H. (1992). Résistance et collaboration au début de la colonisation à Mbandaka. In Müller, E., & Brandstetter, A.-M. (Ed.), Forschungen in Zaïre. Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung 1 ; Münster-Hamburg, Lit, (pp. 481-508).
Complete list of publications
-Aequatoria http://www.aequatoria.be/04engels/032biobiblio_en/0321VINCKBiblio.pdf
-ORCID iD -Lirias (KULeuven) https://lirias.kuleuven.be/mydspace (stopped at the end of 2018)
-FRIS onderzoeksportaal https://researchportal.be/nl/onderzoeker/honore-vinck (selected)
-Mukanda Mukanda: Resources documentaires sur l’Afrique Centrale/ Université de Lorraine, Metz