Belgium Reckons with Colonial Legacy as Antwerp’s ‘Human Zoo’ Monument Honors Victims

In 1894, during Antwerp’s World’s Fair, over a hundred Congolese individuals were forcibly brought to the city and displayed in the Congo Pavilion. This grotesque exhibition, described as a “human zoo,” resulted in the deaths of seven Congolese men from disease. The traumatic episode remains one of Belgium’s most painful colonial legacies. This year, a monument was unveiled to honor the victims of this atrocity. Report by Alix le Bourbon and Dave Keating.

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