So swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence, that by last week shaken Belgian leaders (who a few years ago boasted that their economic ...

Pierre Boone, a Belgian anthropologist and cartographer at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, revised the map in 1935 ... British Uganda and the Belgian Congo. These weren't just boundaries ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...