A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...
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 ...
Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in ... In fact, he ruled the Congo Free State as an absolute monarch ...
The recent history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been one of civil war and corruption. It is rich in ...
Ray Leopold was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on December 13, 1914, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. He graduated from Wilby High School in 1933 and became a mortgage broker.