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Alice Seeley Harris took her camera to the Congo on her honeymoon in 1898. Her gruesome photograph of severed hands helped to end one of history's greatest wrongs

Little known and long uncredited, she may have been the first photographer to use a camera to stop human rights abuses

Digital Camera World

The contested legacy of Edmund Dene Morel – the man who exposed the murderous exploits of King Leopold II in the Belgian Congo

Young shipping clerk Edmund Dene Morel was working as for the Liverpool firm Elder Dempster when he noticed what appeared to be a discrepancy in the figures. What Morel found in his investigation of that discrepancy would expose one of the most notorious systems of violence of the colonial era:…

The Conversation

Colonising Africa: What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

Al Jazeera

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Crime against humanity: Why has a court found Belgium guilty of kidnapping?

Thousands of children were forcibly taken from their families in Belgian colonies because they were mixed-race.

Al Jazeera

Crisis In The Democratic Republic Of Congo: Urgent Humanitarian Needs

Explore the complex history and ongoing challenges faced by the Democratic Republic of Congo due to colonization legacies, resource exploitation, and confl...

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The world's most powerful democracies were built on the suffering of others

United States President Joe Biden has cast the conflict between the western world and its competitors as a clash between “democracies and autocracies.” This masks the American desire for power and the complex realities of creating democracy.

The Conversation

Renovation of Brussels park ignites debate on decolonisation

Triumphal arch in Cinquantenaire park ‘linked to exploitation of Congo’, says cultural group in Belgian capital

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Black history just won’t stay buried

The horrors of the Congo long outlived Belgian domination.

Chicago Sun-Times

Retracing Belgium's dark past in the Congo, and attempts to forge deeper ties

Belgian King Philippe and his wife Queen Mathilde recently led a delegation on a week-long visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The trip was billed as a chance to recalibrate the relationship between the two countries after a dark colonial past. We spoke to Julien Bobineau, who has…

The Conversation

David Pratt: US Capitol riot comes under the microscope at Congress

THEY have only just started, but already signs suggest they are reopening political wounds. I’m talking about the series of landmark public…

The National (Scotland)

Belgian king starts Congo visit, gives award to WWII veteran

Belgium’s King Philippe has given an award to the last known surviving Congolese veteran of World War II

The Independent UK

Brussels statue of colonial king could be melted and made into memorial for Congo victims, says report

Streets and public spaces with colonial names in the Belgian capital should all be renamed, experts say

The Independent UK

‘Human Zoo' expo in Belgium's Africa museum highlights colonial past as EU/AU summit continues

Some twenty kilometers away from the 6th EU/AU summit, Belgian's Africa Museum is showing the Human Zoo exhibition, which revives the forgotten history of colonial powers and their practice of creating displays of human beings in live 'exhibits'.

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