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 ...

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for Leopold is essentially a man of the times, and it is owing to the King's personal efforts that Belgium has found outlets for industry and commerce in the Congo, in Russia, and in the Far East.

Deputy Lorand, who holds intimate relations with members of the French Cabinet, in an interview to-day said that King Leopold had made efforts at Paris to obtain French intervention in the Congo ...

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The Belgian ruler Leopold II had elaborate plans to extract resources from Africa. Pachyderms played a part.

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Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is 65 years old and serves as Archbishop of Kinshasa; he is the only African ...

The organization’s name suggested a charitable purpose, but Leopold instead went on to establish the Congo Free State ... set up trading stations. The Belgian king hired the Scottish shipping ...

First, they partitioned the Congo region with Belgian King Leopold receiving Congo as his personal property. Second, they agreed on the procedure for claiming territories and legitimising those ...