In 1879-1880, as Henry Morton Stanley was secretly mapping the Congo River and procuring trade treaties from local leaders, ...

Faced with this persistent persecution, Rwanda made the only rational choice: it cut Belgium off. The decision to sever diplomatic ties with the Kingdom was not an act of aggression; it was an act of ...

Opinion - Faced with this persistent persecution, Rwanda made the only rational choice: it cut Belgium off. The decision to sever diplomatic ties with the Kingdom was not an act of aggression; it was ...

Column - U.S. President Donald Trump manages to drop the white savior mentality often portrayed by his predecessors. When DR Congo said "take my minerals and crush Rwanda," he showed the European ...

Titled Explaining African Colonialism, it featured the hosts, Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett, speaking about the time when King Leopold II occupied the Congo. According to the official website ...

while the other symbols reference the colonial links to Belgium’s royal greenhouse and art nouveau style of architecture. King Leopold II ruled Congo as an absolute monarch, pillaging it of ...

Between 1885 and 1908, the Belgian King Leopold II personally ruled the Congo Free State, which was also known as the Independent State of the Congo. Because he ruled the state personally ...

King Leopold II, who died in 1909, is remembered for his brutal colonization of Congo. However, after World War I, statues of him were erected to bolster national pride, whitewashing the ...

Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo was ruled by Belgium from 1908 to 1960. King Leopold II took control of Congo 1885 and established a notoriously violent and cruel regime that ended in the ...

During the conference, Belgian King Leopold II obtained international legitimacy for the ownership of the lands in what is now the Congo. From then on, he was the private ruler of the État ...