Totems and Taboos

In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Belgian colonies in Africa, still haunted and traumatized by the ghost of King Leopold II of Belgium, a racist and genocidal tyrant.

• racism
• etnography
• colonization
• democratic republic of the congo
• african history
• anti-racism
• natural history museum
• cultural genocide
• belgian history
• historical revisionism
• human slavery
• belgian congo