Philippe’s public image was ... and in 2020, King Philippe publicly denounced the ‘acts of violence and cruely’ comitted against those living in the Congo Free State during the rule of his great-great ...

He’d arrived in Katwe just as the “scramble for Africa” was heating up, in the wake of King Leopold II’s Berlin Conference ... The salt mine at Lake Katwe. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for ...

In another controversial moment, the prince defended Belgium's King Leopold II, who was blamed for 10million ... The royal was caught out when he tweeted an image of himself at the Chinese embassy ...

But in each TV’s filmmaker mode, which is supposed to deliver the most accurate color possible ... shocked if the Bravia 8 II turns out to be another winner by “King of TV” metrics.

all in the service of the rubber industry presided over by a brutal despot named King Leopold II. In efforts to retain control over the former Belgian colony, King Baudouin of Belgium approached U ...

(In fact, satellite images and aerial photographs would show ... Later, however, he besmirched his reputation by accepting money from King Leopold II of Belgium to help create the Congo Free ...

But in the ensuing century, his reputation plummeted as historians criticized his association in the early 1880s with King Leopold II, the profiteering ... his oaths and his image, Jeal said ...

Makano works with witty artistic imagery in his new body of work to elicit his audience’s attention to the suffering and brutality in his motherland. ART | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Abstract paintings ...

The counterpart of this immense power that science fiction gives us is that, very much in spite that the genre is living a second golden age and its readers are loyal, there still exists, even in the ...

Titled Explaining African Colonialism, it featured the hosts, Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett, speaking about the time when King Leopold II occupied the Congo. According to the official website ...

France and Great Britain had already secured territories in North Africa and Senegal, but it was King Leopold II of Belgium who took a more personal approach—pouring his own fortune into the Congo.