Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

For the orderly Belgians, the Congo conference in Brussels had been ... full assurance that a Congolese government would guarantee Belgian property, shares in colonial corporations have dropped ...

Across the Congo River in last month’s riots in the Belgian city of Léopoldville, it had been black v. white. In Brazzaville last week it was black v. black, and bloodier. Less than three ...