Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum stand ...

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King Leopold II gave up direct control in 1908, and Belgium formally annexed the country, renaming it the Belgian Congo. Colonisers continued to use Africans as wage labour and tried to turn it ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

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 ...

Originally commissioned by King Leopold II of Belgium for his mistress, Caroline Lacroix, the villa later served as a military hospital during World War I. In the 1920s, American architect Ogden ...

On October 14, 1936, then, Belgium reached an important decision. On that date the Council of Ministers met under the presidency of King Leopold III. The King made a solemn address in which he ...

Equatorial Guinea, a relatively wealthy Spanish colony, which Macias Nguema had turned into one of the poorest countries on ...

“Heart of Darkness”: The Struggle Over the Congo Basin Stanley’s mission caught the attention of King Leopold II of Belgium, ...

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