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 ...

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...

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 ...