Davignon, 93, was last living person targeted in investigation into assassination of DRC’s first PM, Patrice Lumumba ...

BRUSSELS — Belgian officials imprisoned Patrice Lumumba as a rabble-rouser. When, shortly afterward, he became the first prime minister of an independent Congo, once their largest and most profitable ...

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"While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have ...

The trees swarmed with black urchins and the crowds along the road shouted “Vive le Roi!” as Leopoldville welcomed young (25) King Baudouin to the Belgian Congo’s steamy, metal-rich and thriving ...

BRUSSELS — A Brussels appeals court ruled on Monday that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in ...

In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue field) ...

A museum devoted to Belgium's colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is now the Democratic Republic of ...

Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamuswekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo ...