An archive photo showing children at Save, an institution where stolen mixed-race children were kept

The children colonial Belgium stole from African mothers

Politics Feb 03
It was 1953 when the white colonials came for her in Babadi, a village in the Kasai region of what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), then a Belgian colony. She was four, the child of a Black Congolese woman and a white Belgian colonial agent. Because she was mixed-race, she would be forced to leave her family and live at a Catholic mission. If she stayed, there would be repercussions: the men – farmers, hunters and protectors of the village – would be forcibly recruited into military duty and taken away. When the time came to leave, her mother was not there to say goodbye. She had left, unable to watch her daughter go.
85 percent of the museum's collection i n Belgium comes from the Congo DR
Belgium returns remains of Congolese independence hero
African Heroes Oct 16
Nearly 60 years after his assassination in January 1961, a court in Belgium ruled on Thursday to give back a tooth- the only remains of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba which his relatives have been lobbying for years to realise this deeply symbolic gesture to the Congolese people.
Patrice Lumumba was murdered in 1961
Belgian court says Lumumba's tooth should be returned
Politics Sep 11
A court in Belgium has ruled that a tooth taken from the corpse of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba should be returned to his family, Belgian media are reporting.