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

From 1908 to 1960, when the Congo Free State became Belgian Congo, it issued identity cards for its overseas citizens of the Belgian Congo. Among the people who were issued the Belgian Congo ...

According to the official website of National Geographic, Leopold was known for forming the Congo Free State after taking over the African land. He received financial support from the Belgian ...

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In the Brederodestraat, the short street behind the royal palace, you will find a for Brussels unusual wooden building. It is the Norwegian Chalet that King Leopold II had built to govern a colony ...

The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions in this city received letters to-day from the Rev. L.C. Vass and the Rev. H.P. Hawkins, missionaries of the church stationed at Luebo, Congo Free State ...

KINSHASA, April 29 (Reuters) - Belgium ... a deal with state miner Gecamines last year to ship germanium concentrates to Europe. Prevot said Belgium's approach to working with Congo was good ...

King Leopold’s exploitation of the Congo Free State and her people. Show more “A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”. In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward ...