King Leopold's Ghost: The story of greed, white king red rubber and black death in Congo

by Joseph Okpoyo

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo which Kingdom was prospering into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

In this book you will find out more about the Kongo Kingdom and the hidden atrocities of King Leopold of Belgium.

28 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2022

Reviews

[Isaiah]

The story of Leopold and his time during the Berlin Conference on the partition of the African continent is interesting as it is deplorable. Well written

[Kari ,]

Fantastic book. Very interesting and informative