Belgium: Comic Strip “Tintin in the Congo” Faces Ban Over Racism · Global Voices
Anna Gueye

Tintin in the Congo, the second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé and featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero,  faces ban over racism. On his blog Alain Mabanckou thinks that «Tintin must remain as a proof of the colonial spirit of the 30s» [fr].