Totems and Taboos
2018
7.0 (2)
54 min
French
Recalling Belgium's brutal colonial history
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.
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- Released
- Production
- Simple Productions, ARTE GEIE, VRT
Keywords
- colonisation
- racism
- etnography
- democratic republic of the congo
- african history
- anti-racism
- natural history museum
- cultural genocide
- belgian history
- historical revisionism
- human slavery
- belgian congo
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Daniel Cattier · Director
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