Now there is a much greater recognition of the harm Belgium caused in Belgian Congo and Rwanda. Under Belgian rule the ...

The case was the first to shed light on the fate of children born to one Black parent and one white parent during Belgium's colonization of Africa. The children, mostly born to African mothers and ...

The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped ... bordering on nine other African colonies/states, was seriously underdeveloped. There were no African army officers, only three African managers ...

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst European failures that Leopold gathered ...