King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually […]
