Belgian CongoBelgiumCentral AfricaCongo Free Stateimperialism and conquestLeopold IIBelgium's colonial rule over the Belgian Congo lasted from 1908 to 1960, but the colony's roots are to be found in the earlier Leopoldian era of the Congo Free State (1885鈥 1908). The violence of the Congo ...
As was the rule during the colonial Belgian rule, Léa, Marie-José, Noëlle, Monique and Simone were taken from their Congolese mother, like thousands of other children. Now aged over 70, the five mixed-race women born to Congolese mothers and European fathers, are now...
King Leopold's Legacy: The Congo under Belgian Rule, 1908–1960. By Roger Anstey. [Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations, London.] (... A simple liquid water treatment applied to fresh and thermally aged Pt(2wt%)–BaO(20wt%)/Al 2 O 3 lean NO x trap ...
The ceremony came only days after a historic visit to DR Congo by King Philippe of Belgium, which was billed as a chance to build new ties after atrocities committed during the colonial rule. The Belgian Congo remained a colony until DR Congo gained its independence in 1960.■...
In the prime years of colonial rule during the first third of the twentieth-century, Belgian colonial administrators caught onto bands of men who disguised murders of local Congolese Africans as leopard attacks. Among the Bali of the eastern Congo, the community and area this paper concerns itsel...
Some, namely the Lever brothers, came to the Congo in the sincere hopes of establishing Christian, middle class African communities in the bush. But Lever's plans were compromised by the firm's paternalism and their overriding need to turn a profit....
By means of two case studies, this paper demonstrates how customary chiefs in Northeast Congo crafted their power position under colonial indirect rule. The first case discusses chiefs' role in anioto or leopard-men killings to secure their authority over people, land and resources whilst ...
French Congo, French possessions in Equatorial Africa from 1897 until 1910, when the colonies of Gabon, Middle Congo (Moyen-Congo), and Ubangi-Shari-Chad were federated under the name Afrique Équatoriale Française (AEF). Thereafter, the term French Congo was used to designate the Middle ...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Belgian Paternalism, Decolonization, Politics: The paternalistic tendencies of Belgian colonial rule bore traces of two characteristic features of Leopoldian rule: an irreducible tendency to treat Africans as children a
1885 of theCongo Free State, annexed in 1908 as theBelgian Congoand now theDemocratic Republic of the Congo. Although he played a significant role in the development of the modern Belgian state, he was also responsible for widespread atrocities committed under his rule against his colonial ...