Tag: Scramble for Africa

  • Leopold II: Belgium’s Builder King with a Dark Side in the Congo

    Leopold II: Belgium’s Builder King with a Dark Side in the Congo

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    Blacc Theddi

    Leopold II, the second King of the Belgians, is revered in Belgium as the “Builder King” for his vast urban projects and public works. However, his reign is tainted by the brutal colonization of the Congo Free State, a personal venture that inflicted immense suffering on the Congolese people. Born…