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 ...

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 ...

By 1909, Belgian colonial administrators acknowledged the existence of the Tutsi people, with Joseph Verloet's ethnographic map precisely documenting their presence.