Inside the palatial walls of Belgium’s Africa Museum stand statues of Leopold II – each one a monument to the king whose rule killed as many as 10 million Africans. Standing close by, one visitor said ...

Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without ...

Belgium may be famous for its beer, Tintin comics, and for being divided between its Dutch-speaking and French-speaking halves, but it also boasts an aviation industry stretching back more than 100 ...

Belgium still behaves as though it is Europe’s natural interpreter of Central Africa, a role inherited from its colonial past and rarely questioned in European circles. For decades, Belgian officials ...