I have seen natives with one hand cut off and I have seen them with ... This may be because four years ago I left the Belgian Congo and went to a new field in Portuguese territory, which lies ...

KAMPALA, Uganda . The word “lazy” still terrorizes 84-year-old Simon Mivuya when he recalls his grandfather, whose hands were chopped off by a Belgian rubber trader during the dark colonial ...

BELGIAN CONGO: A Blight at Birth. 5 minute read. TIME. June 27, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... may be in for severe revision at the hands of the tribalists. In the Congo itself, ...

It will issue its final report this year. Belgium will also hand over a tooth, suspected to be the only remains of Congo’s first prime minister Patrice Lumumba, to his family this month.

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, ...

A Belgian paratrooper hands a bottle of beer to Congolese troops as both groups patrol Boulevard Albert in Leopoldville, ...

The largest company in the Belgian Congo was the mining company Union-Minière ... At work, miners sorted uranium ore by hand. One person described a piece of Shinkolobwe uranium as a block ...

During the 23 years from 1885 to 1908 that Congo was the personal fiefdom of King Leopold — it belonged to the king, not to Belgium — an estimated 10 million Africans died, worked to death ...