In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...
It started with a most deceptive name, the Congo Free State, the name for what was a personal real estate fiefdom for Belgium’s king Leopold who retained mercenary explorers in the 19th Century ...
Eastern Congo, a peripheral part of the inter-lacustrine ... and his family naming it with oxymoronic bravura as “the Free Congo State”. Several decades later after the monstrous tyrant ...