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Multatuli in the Age of Decolonisation and #MeToo
13 March 2020
Now that Multatuli, who was born two hundred years ago, is once again in the limelight, criticism of his ideas also resounds. Was the Dutch writer really such an anti-colonial rebel? And what about his preference for young girls? Elsbeth Etty, president of the Multatuli Society: ‘Multatuli-bashing
Here Is Why We Should Continue to Cherish Multatuli
27 February 2020
The unveiling of a commemorative stone on 17 February 2020 in the Amsterdam Nieuwe Kerk marked the start of the Multatuli year. Soon you will be able to walk across that stone yourself. On the stone, artist Jeroen Henneman depicted a mill and a palm tree. He also worked an emerald into the bluestone