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Taken from their families: a colonial legacy

Meeting the mixed race people taken from their African mothers in Belgium鈥檚 colonial era.

During Belgian colonial rule in what is today Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 20,000 mixed race children were removed from their families. Prudent Nsengiyumva of 麻豆社 Great Lakes went to Belgium to meet Luc Van Damme and Josline Droogmans, both separated from their mothers as children.

Image: Luc Van Damme (R) shows Prudent Nsengiyumva (L) childhood photos
Credit: 麻豆社

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