![]() Research by the University of Ghent, which revealed that Leopold's colonization caused mass death in Congo, was largely ignored. The University of Leuven, where she obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees, "did not have courses on colonial history, and this was the 1990s!" she says. Later, the spin turned to silence, according to Sarah Van Beurden, a professor of African history at The Ohio State University who grew up in Belgium. I can't remember a single negative comment." "We were all given a very favorable view of colonialism. ![]() ![]() "When we went to school, a lot of our teachers were former missionaries so the education that we got was that Belgium brought civilization to Congo - that we did nothing but good in Congo," Gryseels says. Growing up in the 1950s, even Guido Gryseels - the museum's current director - didn't know this history. ![]()
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