Totems and Taboos
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.
- Year: 2018
- Country: Belgium, France, Germany
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Studio: Simple Productions, ARTE GEIE, VRT
- Keyword: 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
- Director: Daniel Cattier
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