The case was the first to shed light on the fate of children born to one Black parent and one white parent during Belgium's colonization of Africa. The children, mostly born to African mothers and ...

This was common practice in France and Belgium's African colonies - it is thought that thousands of children born to colonialists and African women were sent to orphanages and separated from the ...

The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped ... bordering on nine other African colonies/states, was seriously underdeveloped. There were no African army officers, only three African managers ...