Totems and Taboos

Recalling Belgium's brutal colonial history

Dec 07, 2018 54m

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Synopsis

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.

Title	Totems and Taboos
Companies	Simple Productions, ARTE GEIE, VRT
Countries	Belgium, France, Germany
Keywords	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