Belgium has elected a black mayor for the first time - the father of international football ... from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. He became active in politics in 2006 as a ...

Blouin's father placed her in a convent for mixed-race girls, which was run by French nuns in the neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville. This was common practice in France and Belgium's African colonies ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and ... “I grew up thinking my father was dead,” Simone Ngalula, who was brought to Katende in 1952, told Smithsonian magazine’s ...