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Belgium's Royal Loot: The Congo Art Heist
While Leopold II’s personal thefts from the Congo Free State are well documented, this episode explores a different kind of colonial extraction: the systematic looting of sacred art by Belgian museums in the early 20th century. We trace the journey of the Kuba royal regalia and the Nkisi power figures, seized during punitive expeditions but often acquired through dubious 'purchases' from coerced elders. The story follows collector Paul du Bois, whose archives reveal how these objects were stripped of their spiritual context and reclassified as ethnographic curiosities for Tervuren…
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