The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ...

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

His research has dealt with pre-colonial Nigeria, early colonial Congo, the Atlantic slave trade, Asian and African indentured labor migration, and African encounters with Europe in the pre-colonial ...

The DRC’s struggles, exacerbated by French imperialism and greed for minerals, highlight the enduring impact of colonial attitudes.

The Ideological Front: A colonial legacy Although ideological manipulation ... the King of Belgium to deploy White Fathers in his Congo project. Many of them came from the Scheut Fathers, a ...