Sixty years ago, Belgium set up a live display of people from Congo for the 1958 world fair.
Belgium
New find reveals grim truth of colonial Belgium’s ‘human zoos’
Antwerp exhibition tells of the lives and deaths of Congolese shipped over to be put on show in cities from 1885 to 1958
Belgium begins to face brutal colonial legacy of Leopold II
A century after millions died in Congo, attitudes (and street names) are changing