but certainly by a number of male and female American citizens who have permitted their blood to be brought to the boiling point by moving narratives of what has been going on in the Congo Free ...

However, Leopold claimed he was carrying out humanitarian work. Areas that ended up under Leopold, known as the Congo Free State, would suffer some of the worst brutalities of colonisation ...

140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic ...

In 1885 Belgium’s King Leopold II colonized the Congo Free State, a country nearly 80 times the size of his own, damning all cost and regard for human rights in his frenzied quest to exploit the ...

In addition to the continent being divided up amongst European countries, King Leopold II was given the Congo Free State as his own personal possession. The Congo Free State is now known as the ...

By the time Yangambi was built, the Belgian Congo had ended the Free State’s most monstrous practices, but the dynamics at the research station remained steeped in colonial exploitation.

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