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

from etxgardener

I pride myself on being a student of history, and I knew that the history of the Belgium Congo was not one of the high points in Europe's colonial adventures in Africa, but I had no idea how bad it...

from grheault

How the good king Leopold got away with slave labor, 'off the books' governance via private armies,the killing of millions of Congo black, long decades after slavery was banned, and how he was thwa...

from ElizabethPisani

I read this when I happened to be living in Belgium and working in Africa, and when I thought I knew at least a little about both. I found King Leopold's ghost immensely informative, and more than ...

from banjo123

This is exactly the kind of non-fiction that I like to read. It's definitely got some meat to it, but is written for a popular audience. Facts and history are wrapped into character-driven story. H...

from Widsith

'Exterminate all the brutes!' - Kurtz A very readable summary of one of the first real international human rights campaigns, a campaign focussed on that vast slab of central Africa once owned, not ...