The old Dutch republic was a case of commerce producing tolerance, producing harmony, producing a willingness to interact for ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Belgium’s King Philippe returned a traditional ... loving Congo and its people deeply, the colonial regime itself was based on exploitation and domination,” he told ...

and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild presents a horrific picture of the African Congo under the rule of of Belgian King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. This book ...

From anti-protest legislation to moral policing and land dispossession, the legal relics of the colonial empire still reinforce authoritarianism ... French civil codes or Portuguese and Belgian ...

Belgium may no longer hold African colonies, but it continues to host ... The project is no longer one of empire, but of memory control, narrative warfare, and historical revisionism.

Simon Kimbangu (Democratic Republic of Congo) Simon Kimbangu founded the Kimbanguist Church in 1921 as a form of religious and cultural resistance against Belgian colonial rule. His teachings ...

With surprising speed, however, this country’s leaders came to spurn McKinley’s embrace of a colonial empire with its costly ... turned the Congo over to Belgium’s King Leopold II, who ...

The actions of a few European empires have invited harsh scrutiny, too—Belgium’s conduct in ... of the Second World War, when the Empire needed colonial resources to rebuild a depleted economy ...

which used to be part of the Belgian colonial empire. Some countries hoped the summit, which ends on Saturday, would commit to opening a discussion on the subject of reparations, a debate the UK has ...

the union of the Empire." But that could not be done. Assemblies had been established in "all the British Colonies," even in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There must be a Legislature. But, that ...