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Colonialism and the Congo
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The Rhodes ColossusStriding from Cape Town to CairoPunch, 10 December 1892
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Udo J. Keppler, "From the Cape to Cairo," Puck Magazine, 10 December 1902.
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Kipling Collage
1. “White Man’s burden” (the colonizers)2. Colonized People (the colonized)3. Take up! (the mission)
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Congo Timeline• 1870s - Belgian King Leopold II sets about colonizing the area as his private
holding.• 1884 – At Berlin Conference, European powers grant Congo Free State to
absolute control of King Leopold.• 1908 - Congo Free State placed under Belgian rule following outrage over
treatment of Congolese.• 1960 - Independence, followed by civil war and temporary fragmentation of
country.• 1965 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power.• 1997 - Rebels oust Mobutu. Laurent Kabila becomes president.• 1997-2003 - Civil war, drawing in several neighbouring countries (Africa's
first world war).• 2003 - 2012 - Conflict persists in the east.• 2006 - Presidential elections.
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King Leopold IIKing of Belgium (1865-1909)
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“They only tell what is against me.“
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"My yearly income from the Congo is millions of guineas.“
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Reprinted from Mark Twain's pamphlet, "King Leopold’s Soliloquy.“ Before 1905.
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In the Rubber Coils. Scene – The Congo “Free” State. (1906)
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Chained Congolese slaves on a Belgian rubber plantation.
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Ivory trading in the Congo
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European missionary.