From Leopold to lithium: How corporations perfected the art of plundering Africa
The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...
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Congo protesters attack Belgian Embassy amid anger at 'foriegn interference'
Protesters in the Congo attacked the historically significant Belgian Embassy amid anger at foreign interference in the ...
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British artist chosen to ‘reinterpret’ controversial statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II
Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the seaside ... In fact, he ruled the Congo Free State as an absolute ...
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Canadian hands in Congo drip with the blood of millions
Congo has been wracked by more than a century of violent colonization and imperialism resulting in millions of deaths—and ...
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The ‘Scramble for Africa’
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 ...