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His Skull Was Taken From Congo as a War Trophy. Will Belgium Finally Return It?
The New York Times
The skull of a Congolese leader, Lusinga Iwa Ng'ombe, who fought back against Belgian colonial invaders in the late 19th century,...
4 days ago
Belgium's Africa Museum Pores Over Colonial-era Collection
Barron's
Belgium's main museum dedicated to Africa has started delving into the origins of its enormous collection, as a first step towards possible...
3 months ago
Belgium's Africa Museum rethinks its relationship with Congo
BBC
In the darkest corner of a grand museum that looks like a neo-classical palace lies a not-so-secret room. It is filled with statues of...
10 months ago
Belgium's AfricaMuseum has a dark colonial past – it's making slow progress in confronting this history
The Conversation
Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people...
10 months ago
Why Belgian museums need to confront their looted African trophies
The Brussels Times
In recent years, pressure has been growing on European museums to return artifacts taken from Africa during colonial times.
2 weeks ago
The Royal Museum for Central Africa’s Fraught Update
The Atlantic
Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren't so easily changed.
50 months ago
Art restitution: Decolonising Europe's museums
The Parliament Magazine
The politics of looted African art: The history of colonial art restitution is largely one of inaction. But with renewed calls for stolen...
2 months ago
New expo in AfricaMuseum traces how objects ended up in Belgium
The Brussels Times
New expo in AfricaMuseum traces how objects ended up in Belgium ... Discussions about the return of colonial objects have been high on the...
3 months ago
The double anniversary of Belgium's Africa Museum
Travel Tomorrow
The Royal Museum of Central Africa, renamed the Africa Museum, has been standing in Tervuren for over a century. 125 years to be precise.
7 months ago
Belgium's Africa Museum reopens, as country confronts its violent colonial past
Washington Post
BRUSSELS — The years-long renovation of Belgium's grand museum devoted to Central Africa was intended to overhaul an institution that was...
61 months ago