Un voyage au pays des popophages

This paper analyzes two works for young people with colonial content, published in Belgium in 1930, Tante Julia découvre le Congo (Ransy Roger, 1932), and Jeannot gosse d’Afrique (Jeanne Maquet-Tombu, 1935). Providing an internal vision of the Belgian Congo, both focus on the everyday but with contrasting perspectives where image and representations of the Other and the Abroad say a lot about the collective definition of itself, namely that of Belgium as a colonial power.