Leopold’s Reckoning
Decades after he oversaw a brutal regime that mutilated and murdered millions of Congolese, King Leopold’s legacy is finally being challenged in Belgium – but there won’t be justice until a debt is repaid to Congo itself.
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Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is professor of African and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina and the author of many books including The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History and Patrice Lumumba.