One particular statement--"Belgian rule virtually forbade education in the Congo"--is a complete distortion ... sent a higher proportion of its people to school. Belgium spent $38 million for ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

For the orderly Belgians, the Congo conference in Brussels had been ... full assurance that a Congolese government would guarantee Belgian property, shares in colonial corporations have dropped ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...