Sign up for courses we organise every working year: Dutch, Lingala, Swahili, dance and percussion.

Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo language lessons
The next registration round for Lingala, Swahili and Kikongo will open later this year. The course consists of a module of 10 lessons and usually take place in the evening at Kuumba: Passerstraat 5, 1070 Anderlecht. For a module of 10 lessons, you pay 100 euros. The next series of classes will start again from September 2025.

For all practical questions, please contact Kuumba: info@kuumba.be.
The Lingala teacher is Gerard Matondo (matondogerard@gmail.com)
The Swahili and Kikongo teacher is Daniel Tuyizere (dtuyizere@gmail.com).

DUTCH
Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning (9am - 12.30pm) there are Dutch lessons in Kuumba. We do this in cooperation with CVO Brussel and the House of Dutch.

You can find more information and register on the site: https://www.huisnederlandsbrussel.be/

For groups looking for activities we have a whole range of workshops: 

• Dance: this dance class is a workout with dance from Central Africa. This workshop is given by Joseph Saidi Simako. Highly recommended for school groups, groups of adults, in other words: both young & old!
• Percussion: this interactive and rhythmic workshop for young & old is an ideal relaxation and introduction to African tradtional music.
• Board games: get to know the traditional community games from all over the African continent. This workshop creates fun moments and group feeling. Come with your family, colleagues & friends to play fun games.
• iniation language lessons: a fun way to get to know an African language. Kuumba offers Swahili and Lingala, two widely spoken languages in Sub-Saharan Africa.
   
• Decolonisation at Africa Museum: Starting with the 2023-2024 school year, the AfricaMuseum and Flemish-African House Kuumba are joining forces for an educational package on Belgian-Congolese colonial history for students (3rd grade secondary school). At the AfricaMuseum, you can attend the workshop Colonization: Belgium-Congo, which explores the colonization of Congo. How to register?
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Lovers of creativity who wish to exhibit their creative works can contact us so long as these have something to do with Africa, whether directly or indirectly. Exhibition space is therefore available for them and Kuumba take cares of communication, the setting and the opening.
Visiting or organising an exhibition

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Kuumba has four rooms that are also at the disposal of community life. You can hire them for meetings, conferences, and all kinds of cultural events.

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Enjoy the atmosphere and drink of our bar. For larger groups, you can also request a Congolese, Senegalese, or light appetizers buffet.
Book now on: info@kuumba.be

Congolese buffet : 

€ 17.5 per person (rice, plantains, moambe chicken, pondu, beans) 

25 euros (fish and fritters)  

Senegalese buffet :  

€ 20 euros per person (rice, yasser, chicken maffe, salad, Senegalese fried rice)

€ 25 per person (buffet with fish) 

Light buffet: various appetisers from different African countries: fritters, samosas, plantains, fatayer. 

€ 15 per person

Opening hours Kuumba Kaffee:

Wednesday (15:00 - 21:00)
Thursday (15:00 - 21:00)
Friday (15:00 - 21:00)

Would you like to discover Matongé? We organise guided tours trough the neigbourhood. Ours guides will talk about the history en show you the unique shops and places that make Matongé special. 

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