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Totems and Taboos (2018)

Totems and Taboos (2018)

History Documentary

Recalling Belgium's brutal colonial history

Release Date: 2018, December 7
Directors: Daniel Cattier
Countries: Belgium, Germany, France
Production: Simple Productions, ARTE GEIE, VRT

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

racism anti-racism colonization historical revisionism natural history museum african history democratic republic of the congo belgian history etnography cultural genocide human slavery belgian congo