amaah
Berkeley
A story about this — 2 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
A comprehensive portrait of greed and cruelty that beggars belief. To call it a sense of noblesse oblige simply underestimates the depths that Leopold plundered. This was the worst of the colonial enterprise and the most disastrous
If you add up the numbers, the Congo suffered the loss of 10 million people through forced labour, amputations, the occasional massacres of mismatched congolese etc. All in all, a horrendous price to pay.
Besides laying all this almost biblical infamy out in clear and depressing fashion, there are also great visions of the few heroes that struggled to thwart Leopold and the exacting price they almost universally paid.
An impassioned analysis yet nuanced and ultimately devastating.