Where 'Human Zoos' Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its Colonial Past

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Where 'Human Zoos' Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its Colonial Past

Aimé Mpane remembers when he first saw the old statues.

It was 1994, and the Congolese visual artist had just moved to Belgium, which once ruled his country. Growing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mpane says he had been taught in school that the Congolese were descended from the Gauls — "that they were our kings."

"In our schoolbooks, it was as if the Congolese did not exist without Belgian colonialists," says Mpane, 50. His work explores the memory of colonialism in Congo and Belgium. "I wanted to know what [the Belgians] knew about us."

So he set out for the place where he thought he'd find some answers: the Royal Museum for Central Africa in the Flemish village of Tervuren.

"When I walked inside, it struck me that our history had been confiscated," he says through a translator. "That when our children come here, they would not see a positive image of themselves."

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https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/64960021 ... onial-past

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Ah yes "Colonialism", a nice sounding word to cover-up centuries of the conquests (bloody) of countries, peoples, many centuries, since time began, shall we say? Europe was Everywhere! Racist, domineering, murdering, torturing, enslaving.

My point...........the United States is always pointed out, that the people, as the worst of the worst, most unfair, racist, cruel, etc. Slave owning, hate children, hate people with different color skin, bla,bla,bla And again, people are consumed, by being manouvered and brainwashed and believe the lie. I am not saying that these things Do Not exist, but it exists, not just in , one country in particular, but in entire world populated by Humans, the Great, The Good, The Bad and The Evil that will come here to lead the weak to slaughter. One of the first alarms that should go off in peoples heads is to look closely at Who is pointing the fingers.

Colonialism

"The goal of this entry is to analyze the relationship between Western political theory and the project of colonialism. After providing a more thorough discussion of the concept of colonialism, this entry will explain how European thinkers justified, legitimized, and challenged political domination. The third section focuses on liberalism and the fourth section briefly discusses the Marxist tradition, including Marx’s own defense of British colonialism in India and Lenin’s anti-imperialist writings. The fifth section provides an introduction to contemporary “post-colonial theory.” This approach has been particularly influential in literary studies because it draws attention to the diverse ways that postcolonial subjectivities are constituted and resisted through discursive practices. The final section will introduce an Indigenous critique of settler-colonialism that emerges both as a response to colonial practices of domination and dispossession of land, customs and traditional history and to post-colonial theories of universalism. The goal of the entry is to provide an overview of the vast and complex literature that explores the theoretical issues emerging out of the experience of European colonization."

Very Interesting if you have the time
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/