Listen to the yell of Leopold’s ghost Burning in Hell for hand-maimed host. Hear how the demons chuckle and yell Cutting his hands off, down in Hell The title of this review is the subtitle to Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, an engrossing work about Belgian king Leopold the II and his disastrous, murderous, exploitative impact on Africa’s Congo region. The Congo was first contacted by Portugal in 1491 and was taken over by European colonialism by the the late 1800s. Hochschild makes good use […]
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
