The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast ...

In his book King Leopold’s Ghost, the historian Adam Hochschild ... On the whole continent, perhaps no nation has had a harder time than the Congo in emerging from the shadow of its past.” ...

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For me, that title was Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, which recounts the history of Belgium’s brutal colonial rule ...