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 ...

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 ...

Belgium in 1865 -- The father and the son -- First steps in diplomacy: Leopold's marriage -- Foreign journeys: the germ of imperialism -- The attack of little Belgium -- The new king and the parties - ...

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