The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium b

The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium by Matthew Stanard. Published by Leuven University Press in 2019. Paperback. The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonisation. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the controversial episodes in the country's colonial past. This volume examines the long-term effects and legacies of the colonial era on Belgium after 1960, the year the Congo gained its independence, and calls into question.