"I cried, I cried, I cried, there was no one. An older girl gave her a slice of mango and took her in her arms. From that day it was the end of my life with my family," recalls Monique, reflecting on her forced separation.
"Her Congolese mother was 15 when she was born; her father was 32, a colonial official from a well-to-do family in Liege. Monique's existence and thousands of other mixed-race children known as metis alarmed the Belgian state, which viewed these babies as a threat to the white supremacist colonial order."
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