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Belgian Museum Looks At Country's History Of Colonialism And Racism - NPR
In the 19th century, King Leopold appropriated Congo as his personal colony. Millions of Africans were killed, enslaved or died of disease. The Royal Museum of Central Africa (ph) outside Brussels ...
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Africa | King Leopold's legacy of DR Congo violence - BBC News
King Leopold II left arguably the largest and most horrid legacy . While the Great Powers competed for territory elsewhere, the king of one of Europe's smallest countries carved his own private colony ...
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Where 'Human Zoos' Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its Colonial Past - NPR
When the Royal Museum for Central Africa reopens, it intends to finally confront a sordid part of Belgium's history — the exploitation led by King Leopold II which killed millions in Congo.
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Belgium’s King Leopold II has a 21st century nemesis. He’s 14 years old - CNN
Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite ...
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Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past - BBC
Campaigners want statues of King Leopold II, who killed millions in Central Africa, to be removed.
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King Leopold's Ghost - Variety
"The horror, the horror," the phrase Joseph Conrad used to describe the 19th century Congo in his novella "Heart of Darkness," also echoes throughout Pippa Scott's angry yet elegant docu, "King ...
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Belgium confronts ugly colonial past, but African museum changes don’t please everyone - Los Angeles Times
BRUSSELS — The Royal Museum for Central Africa opened here in 1897 to celebrate Belgium’s new colonial triumph — the creation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II. His reign over the ...
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A Monument to Denial - Los Angeles Times
Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost" (Mariner Books, 1999) and "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). No ...
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Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp (Published 2020) - The New York Times
BRUSSELS — A 150-year-old statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, whose forces seized Congo in the late 19th century and ran an exploitative regime that led to the deaths of millions, was removed ...
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Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’ - The New York Times
To commemorate the 125th anniversary of the tragedy that was the Tervuren exhibition, the museum that King Leopold built in that same park — which recently rebranded as the Africa Museum — has ...
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Belgium’s King Leopold II has a 21st century nemesis. He’s 14 years old - CNN
Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite ...
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Belgium’s King Leopold II has a 21st century nemesis. He’s 14 years old | CNN - CNN International
Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite ...