The graphic novel ‘Molo Uku – Legacy of a Golden Era’ tells the story of the arrival of the VOC in Maluku from a Moluccan perspective. This fictional story incorporates all kinds of elements from Moluccan history that have been passed on through oral tradition. Real events, people who stand as symbols for elements of the culture. All of it in a unique storyline with wonderful artwork. The book is a creation of teacher and entrepreneur Erno Pickee.
The aim of this comic book is to inspire readers to want to know more about their history. And in doing so to recognise and acknowledge the mistakes that were made, in order to learn from them. So that we can ultimately come closer together. Then we can finally turn this dark page of our history and work on the things that really matter. Pickee: “We have to improve our world for the people who inherit it from us – our legacy.”
Making room Erno Pickee is an entrepreneurial teacher. He teaches entrepreneurially and teaches while running a business. His mother is Moluccan and his father is Dutch. The coexistence and the conflict of these two backgrounds live within him. That is why he is determined to tell this perspective on the VOC, so as to reduce the conflict and create more room for “together”. He does this through an old teaching principle:
Tell you and you’ll forget Show you and you will remember Involve you and you’ll understand
Pickee continues: ‘It is about creating engagement, about raising questions such as: “Did it really happen like that?” – “Why did we let this happen?” – “Why didn’t I know this?” Then you find out: “Reality is harsher than fiction can ever be”. Your legacy is someone else’s heritage.
More information at molouku.com
