King Leopold’s rule over the Congo may have ended more than a century ago, but its consequences are still visible across the nation. The forced labor system, resource extraction, and human suffering ...

Overlooking Kinshasa from the seclusion of a presidential garden, the statue of Belgian King Leopold II stares over the Congo River far from the protests and rage targetting colonial figures elsewhere ...

Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S. have sparked a reckoning about racism and colonialism across the world, including in Belgium, where a growing movement is demanding the country address systemic ...

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