AFA copy 39088019024595 is a gift from Janet Stanley. In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- A statue of the late King Leopold II, whose Belgian government was responsible for the deaths of millions of Congolese, was mysteriously taken down Thursday, a day after it was ...

Overlooking Kinshasa from the seclusion of a presidential garden, the statue of Belgian King Leopold II stares over the Congo River far from the protests and rage targetting colonial figures elsewhere ...

Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s ...

In 1885 a coalition of European powers granted personal ownership of the Congo, a region rich in minerals and rubber, to Belgium’s King Leopold II. His royal army enslaved the native population ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has historically served as a primary hindquarter of European colonialism, ...