The ‘African’ Museum in Belgium

Belgium reopened its racist universe museum that it calls Belgium’s African museum. This museum is really a celebration of colonialism and the wealth of colonialism coupled with how Belgium plundered the continent for its own gain. The museum is however framed as is a propaganda channel that is meant to justify Colonialism to the younger generations of course under the pretext of civilizing the African.

The museum opened after $73 million revamp a lot of money funded of course from the African continent. Millions of Africans were left dying of starvation and disease the limbs cut off to satisfy the king of Belgium.

Younger generations are being taught that colonialism was not such a bad thing they say it is a reflection of colonialism.  Critics say it is not normal that 80% of the African cultural artifacts and art and heritage is in Europe and not Africa where they belong.

Belgium not only stole the resources plundered the rubber out of the Congo decimated the minerals out of the Congo. The King Leopold; was known as the architect of the genocide in Congo where more than 15 million had their limbs cut off because they did not produce enough rubber. King Leopold is also known as the butcher of the Congo killed millions and millions of innocent Africans who did not produce enough rubber.

 What is really sad is that in 2019 there are people who still justify colonialism they do this well in a very clever way. A part of creating a narrative and sticking to that narrative is being able to preserve that narrative edged in the very building itself. There are statues that show the role of missionaries in the colonization of Africa proclaiming to bring civilization to the Congo.

The museum has a giant wooden sculpture with an African man’s head and of course of the justification is that Africans were uncivilized they were savages many of the statues are edged in the building ignore the brutality of a king Leopold II whose troops collected the hands and the body organs of more than 15 million of Congolese who did not meet their quotas as they provided slave labor. Of course those who have benefitted from colonialism do not like to admit that colonialism was in fact really bad for Africans. Colonialism was terror and that there is no justification for terror but of course when you are a beneficiary of colonialism you don’t want to admit that the reason that your economy is the way that it is; because it is built on the backs of Africans sweat blood and tears.

Some of the statues that are in the museum show Africans as savages which and the most racist of them is the statue of leopard man but shows an African about to strike another African again to justify colonialism and its 2019 time to change the narrative