A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

A World War II-era archival document, drafted by the monarch's advisers and unearthed by a Belgian historian, sheds light on ...

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 ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast ...

Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective ... A well known example of these horrors is when King Leopold II transformed the so-called 'free state' of Congo into his personal fiefdom, claiming ...

Leopold III was crowned the King of Belgium in 1934. In September 1939, when World War II broke out, Britain and France asked Belgium to join them. But Leopold and his government refused stating ...

The building dates back to King Leopold II and contains many impressive reception ... Bruges and Ghent - Belgium's Fairytale Cities - from Brussels (4402 reviews) ...

Inspired by Adam Hochschilds bestselling book about Leopold II of Belgiums plunder in the Congo and the Congolese who defied him and fought back The struggle sparked an unlikely alliance between a ...