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

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 ...

So swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence, that by last week shaken Belgian leaders (who a few years ago boasted that their economic ...

Much of the collection is made up of artefacts from African states formerly under Belgian rule, particularly Belgian Congo ... state’s role in their history. “It was becoming a museum of ...

Vast fortunes have been made in Congo throughout history but the money has often ... was where some of the worst atrocities were committed by Belgian King Leopold’s colonial regime a little ...

“The Belgian soldiers left ... does not erase the facts of history given that the European country has a fair share of blame in creating the conflicts in DR Congo. A country now leading the ...