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 ...

The king’s severed head is a nod to ... power symbol but also one of most chilling aspects of Leopold’s vicious plunder of the Congo. Belgian colonialists infamously cut off the hands of ...

From a turbulent childhood to a polyglot Renaissance ruler, Tatler celebrates the 65th birthday of King Philippe of Belgium ...

Tom and Dominic set out on their shocking journey into the history of the subjugation of the Congo Free State to the monstrous King Leopold of Belgium.

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

Massad Boulos, US President Donald Trump’s advisor on Africa and the Middle East, was in Africa to meet Presidents Felix ...

Although the rest of Africa seems to have forgotten about the crisis and wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), some ...

In another controversial moment, the prince defended Belgium's King Leopold II, who was blamed for 10million deaths in the Congo. He claimed in 2020 that Leopold could not have 'made people ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

but it was King Leopold II of Belgium who took a more personal approach—pouring his own fortune into the Congo. He carefully portrayed himself as a humanitarian, even as his real intentions were ...