Following the brutal reign of King Leopold II in what was then considered his private property, the Congo became a Belgian colony in 1908. Three years later, the colonial authorities granted ...

In addition to the continent being divided up amongst European countries, King Leopold II was given the Congo Free State as his own personal possession. The Congo Free State is now known as the ...

In 1885 Belgium’s King Leopold II colonized the Congo Free State, a country nearly 80 times the size of his own, damning all cost and regard for human rights in his frenzied quest to exploit the ...

On the political front, King Leopold II exploited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1885 as his private property, and after his death, he bequeathed it to the Kingdom of Belgium.

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.