{"id":33946,"date":"2026-08-22T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/33946\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:22:09","slug":"antwerps-human-zoo-belgium-confronts-shame-of-colonial-past-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/33946\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp&#8217;s &#8216;human zoo&#8217;: Belgium confronts shame of colonial past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">\n                                                                In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World&#8217;s Fair, more than a hundred Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city to be exhibited in the Congo Pavilion. In this &#8220;human zoo&#8221;, seven Congolese men ultimately died of disease. Today, this shocking episode still haunts Belgium as one of its colonial history&#8217;s darkest chapters. This year, a monument to the victims was unveiled. Report by Alix le Bourbon and Dave Keating.                            <\/p>\n<p>Keywords for this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World&#8217;s Fair, more than a hundred Congolese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,7,4771,4872,69,5276],"class_list":["post-33946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-antwerp","tag-belgium","tag-colonialism","tag-dr-congo","tag-europe","tag-history"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117138905269044822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}