Part of the albums of the Franco-Belgian series The Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in the Congo was edited weekly between May 1930 and June 1931, with several later publications. A commercial success during the following decades, it came to be criticized for demonstrating racist attitudes against Africans, revealing the deep colonial content ingrained in the pages written and drawn by Georges Prosper Remi, aka Hergé. Based on specialized literature and in the face of recent movements such as Black Lives Matter, which raised questions of prominent monuments and pieces of art considered racist, this study aims to analyze and show how a cultural product can generate representations of the period in which it s inserted. The study uses the review of the comics themselves, in addition to specialized bibliography and media reports, to try to highlight how a cultural product, inserted within the reality of Belgium in the 1930s, is seen by young readers today.