While statues of slave traders, imperialists and US Confederate leaders are being torn down, removed or protested against in the English-speaking world, Belgium has begun removing statues of its ...

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 the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

It would take a determined visitor to the Royal Museum for Central Africa to locate the life-sized likeness of one of history’s most brutal colonial rulers carved from ivory. The statue of Belgium‘s ...

In Belgium, King Leopold II was hailed as the “Builder King” for his wondrous works. But overseas, in the Congo Free State, lay the horrific truth: Leopold was more of a butcher than a builder. Trump ...

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The Belgian international was the surprise subject of an online petition set up by residents of his home town Toby Alderweireld admits he was “honoured” after residents of his home town of Ekeren ...

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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 ...

In the 1998 book of popular history King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild presents a horrific picture of the African Congo under the rule of ...