It's an attitude that goes back generations to Belgium's colonial era, say experts -- and a 21st century reappraisal seems some distance away. "You can talk about blackface in Belgium pretty much every day," anti-racism campaigner Mouhad Reghif told CNN. "They do not face their colonial history ... they don't talk about the millions of dead by Leopold II." In February, a group of UN experts visited the country to investigate the role its imperial history plays today. 'You're there, but you don't exist'One institution finds itself at the center of the storm about Belgian colonial memory -- the country's controversial Africa Museum.

Source: CNN November 30, 2019 05:03 UTC