LEGACIES OF: THE BELGIAN COLONY & CONGO [2019]

Tuesday, 24 December, 2019 Latest News: Signs of a possible wolf presence in Antwerp... SIGN IN ABOUT US ADVERTISE EU WORLD BRUSSELS BELGIUM SPORTS POLITICS MAGAZINE OPINIONS JOBS AFFAIRS In the headlines Tuesday, 24 December 2019 Legacies of the colony:... More

Tuesday, 24 December, 2019 Latest News: Signs of a possible wolf presence in Antwerp... SIGN IN ABOUT US ADVERTISE EU WORLD BRUSSELS BELGIUM SPORTS POLITICS MAGAZINE OPINIONS JOBS AFFAIRS In the headlines Tuesday, 24 December 2019 Legacies of the colony: The lost Brussels Christmas children of Congo Market Tuesday, 24 December 2019 FibreGuard Relax in a FibreGuard beanbag w getting carried away OPEN Their mixed skin colour disrupted the colonial order, so the métis children were taken out of society to live separately from the rest of the colony. In the run-up to Congo’s independence from its Belgian colonisers in 1960, the Belgian state arranged to bring everything that was Belgian back to Europe, including children born to a black African mother and a white Belgian father. These so-called ‘métis’ children were declared property of the Belgian state and forcibly taken from their mothers to be put Share article: on a plane to Belgium, where they o en ended up in h f f l Less