The statues are among several depicting Africans as primitive and the Belgian colonisers as white saviours. They serve as a reminder of both the museum’s and Belgium’s colonial past.

The case was the first to shed light on the fate of children born to one Black parent and one white parent during Belgium's colonization of Africa. The children, mostly born to African mothers and ...

A Belgian Government aide, Miss Gilberte Denoux, defended certain aspects of her country's policy vis a vis the Congo. She strove to demonstrate that European colonization has not been an ...