How King Leopold's Colonial Legacy Still Haunts the Congo Today

The seeds for the present political instability were sowed when the Congo was under Belgian rule. The Congo is a region with vast natural ...

The Colonial Legacy and Transitional Justice in the Democratic ...

The gains from Congolese ivory and rubber were multiplied by 96 and, therefore, King Leopold II found himself sitting on a source of ...

King Leopold's Ghost - Apple TV

This vivid documentary offers an engrossing insight into the grim colonial legacy which still haunts the Congo today. MORE. 91%. TOMATOMETER. Average 7.5 ...

Colonialism in DRC « Costa Rica Blog

He named it the Congo Free State, and used a colonial military to commit atrocities against the people of the Congo and force them into the ...

Transferable Sovereignty: Lessons from the History of the Congo ...

NELSON, COLONIALISM IN THE CONGO BASIN 1880–1940, at 79. (1994). 16. ROGER ANSTEY, KING LEOPOLD'S LEGACY: THE CONGO UNDER BELGIAN RULE. 1908–1960, at 261 (1966) ...

DR Congo: Cursed by its natural wealth - BBC News

DR Congo is potentially one of the richest countries on earth, but colonialism, slavery and corruption have turned it into one of the ...

Atrocities in the Congo Free State - Wikipedia

From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium.

Climate, Capital, and Colonialism: A Congolese Perspective

Legacies, afterlives, and experiences of continued exploitation infuse everyday life in DRC today, as in so many regions of the world living in ...

Lasting Legacy of Colonization in the DRC - STAND

The “one-man show” of the Congo Free State, administered entirely under King Leopold II of Belgium, caused what is widely considered to be one ...

DR Congo: King Leopold's legacy – DW – 06/29/2020

60 years after independence, traces of the system of exploitation and violence that Leopold II and colonial-era Belgium created still remain ...

European Colonialism in Africa Is Alive - Project Syndicate

Meanwhile, in Belgium, protesters forced the removal of statues of King Leopold II, who ruled the Congo ruthlessly as his private fiefdom until ...

Neocolonialism: Cobalt Mining in Democratic Republic of the Congo

[18] Despite DRC's independence, the scars of its colonial past remain. Today, the need for coltan, cobalt, and manganese has skyrocketed with ...

An Examination of the Instability and Exploitation in Congo ... - CORE

since the colonial period and the beginning of King Leopold II of Belgium's exploitation. 2. Yet this feast was not a mindless ravaging of the country's ...

The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics by Bruce Gilley

The African warlord Msiri whose compound decorated with human remains was the inspiration, along with a similar compound of the king of Benin, for Conrad's ...

Belgium's genocidal colonial legacy haunts the country's future

Growing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country blinded from its colonial role, has left many Congolese Belgians struggling with ...

Congo's 60th Anniversary of Independence, a Time of Reckoning?

In Belgium, which inflicted one of history's most brutal imperial legacies upon what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, several statues and monuments of ...

When Belgium committed a holocaust in Africa - YouTube

This is how the story of Leopold's regime colonised, exploited, murdered, enslaved, and maimed the people of the Congo and how Brussels' ...

King Leopold's Imperialism and the Origins of the Belgian Colonial ...

Dumoulin, Léopold II: Un roi génocidaire? (Brussels, 2005); and G. Vanthemsche, “The Historiography of. Belgian Colonialism in the Congo,” in Europe and the ...

4. Excerpt from King Leopold's Ghost (2)

This vivid documentary offers an engrossing insight into the grim colonial legacy which still haunts the Congo today. 5. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu on the ...

King Leopold's ghost still haunts the Congo - YouTube

It's weird, every country seems to have skeletons in the closets that's swept under the rug. When I went to school in Belgium, the brutality ...