Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke was meant to ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s exploitation on poles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

While statues of slave traders, imperialists and US Confederate leaders are being torn down, removed or protested against in the English-speaking world, Belgium has begun removing statues of its ...

Overlooking Kinshasa from the seclusion of a presidential garden, the statue of Belgian King Leopold II stares over the Congo River far from the protests and rage targetting colonial figures elsewhere ...

Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium's King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite the ...

The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of police has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, ...

The Belgian port city of Antwerp took down a statue of late King Leopold II on Tuesday just days after it was daubed with paint by anti-racism protesters.