Five women are about to knock out Belgium with all its ghosts linked to the terrifying colonial past in Congo. The five elderly ladies, four residing within the borders of Belgium and one in ...
During World War II the Congo even paid the bills for the Belgian government in exile. While Britain and France poured large sums into overseas territories, the Congo colony’s $960 million ten ...
Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels ...
The current protests are not the first time Belgium's ugly history in Congo has been contested in the streets. In 2019, the cities of Kortrijk and Dendermonde renamed their Leopold II streets ...
Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial history The horrific consequences ... "He never went to [DR Congo] himself," the prince said in an interview. "I do not see how he could have made people ...