BBCNEWS Breakfast June 4, 2024 05:39:00
From the netherlands in the 19th century, the western nations' scramble for africa was in full throttle. now, king leopold wanted a piece of the action, but without the support of his own government, he had to win over investors and the public. the exposition was a huge success, and so began belgium's long and violent history in the congo. when i arrived there in 2001 as director, i found a museum that basically hadn't changed since 1956. basically the year when i first visited the museum... as a child? as a child, yeah. it was still a colonial museum doing colonial propaganda in all sense of ...
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