King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

Audiobook edition 13h 21m audio 1998

53 editions

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber...

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