King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Introduction

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa is Hochschild's terrific, gripping chronicle spotlights on one of the biggest, shocking and almost disremembered vicious misdemeanors of the century: rape of the Congo by greedy Belgian King Leopold II.

Africa had been split up in the 1880s by the Europeans. King Leopold II who belonged to Belgium grabbed hold of for himself the enormous and gigantic undiscovered region enfolding the River of Congo ...