Totems and Taboos (2018)

Overview : In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Belgian colonies in Africa, still haunted and traumatized by the ghost of King Leopold II of Belgium, a racist and genocidal tyrant.

Release Date : December 7, 2018

Runtime : 54m

Genre : Documentary, History  

Companies : Simple Productions, ARTE GEIE, VRT

Countries : Belgium, France, Germany

Keywords : racism, etnography, colonization, democratic republic of the congo, african history, antiracism, natural history museum, cultural genocide, belgian history, historical revisionism, human slavery, belgian congo