Belgian Congo

rape, and torture have marked the progress of Englishman, German Frenchman, and Belgian on the dark continent.” In November 1884 13 European countries and the US met in Berlin Germany to divide up all the land in Africa. However, European powers have been in Africa for years despite Africa’s growth and advancements. These countries hoped to imperialize Africa as they overtook land to gain political and economic powers. Congo has become an important asset to trade and served as a driving force…

colonization but Europe took advantage of the low development of the continent and earned profits from the labor of natives. While the profits of Europeans were growing the Africans were forced to slave labor and their homes and local environment. The Belgians in ”Heart of Darkness” were described to us by Joseph Conrad as ruthless colonizers, who damaged the natural environment and economy of the country they unlawfully invaded under the excuse of untruthful slogans and motives. In the”Heart of…

Homs, where there are few, if any, militants of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.’” A common theme surrounding the idea of imperialism is hypocrisy as portrayed in Heart of Darkness with Dr. Kurtz, who was supposed to bring peace in Congo, but made the natives suffer for his own good. As the US were busy pointing their fingers at Russia and their imperialistic policies, Western media were also busy hiding the United States’ imperialistic ways. For example, Western media would not…

Crisis. French presence in Agadir, the capital of Morocco, led the Germans to believe that the French wished to take full control of Morocco. The Germans believed Morocco should fall to them and demanded that France turn over territory in the French Congo to Germany in return for Morocco. However, Britain backed France and Germany only received a small strip of French territory in Africa. With all the land in Africa divided, the British and Dutch occupying most of Asia, the British Empire…

War 1, the peace treaty gave this region to Belgium. The Belgium also gave the Tutsi higher positions. Belgium created a new law stating that the two groups must carry an ID card on them at all times which identifies them as Hutu or Tutsi. When the Belgian left the country in 1962, civil conflict broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi over who should have more power. When the Hutu formed a government, many Tutsi fled the country. In 1980, economic problems made the Hutu government disliked. The…

Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Thousands of Rwandans who were classified as Tutsi, under the German and Belgium colonial rule were killed by the Hutus. The Tutsi were placed into more important administrative roles because of how they looked. When the Belgians left, they left a hatred between the two groups. Eventually later, there would be a civil war between Tutsi refugees and the Rwandan government that would turn into a genocide. This could be a result of the colonial government giving preference…

countries such as France, Britain, Portugal, Spain, and Germany fought to imperialize African territory to replace their lost American work force and source of raw materials. One of the many areas that had been imperialized during this time was the Congo. Here, African citizens were…

In March 1909, shortly after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt left New York for the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, a safari in east and central Africa. Roosevelt's party landed in British East Africa, Mombasa and traveled to the Belgian Congo before following the Nile River to Khartoum in Sudan. Financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The…

Horror and Anguish “The horror! The horror!” We all believe in the agonizing horror that has occurred in Africa since its colonization. After the colonization of Africa, Belgium had a tight, constricting hold on the Congo that negatively impacted them- and the rest Africa. Just when Africans thought that the tight hold on their continent was the worst to be faced, their resources were starting to be stolen by America and Europe. A ‘White Man’s Burden’ has also affected Africa in both times of…

The attempt fails, but Rom is able to capture Jane, along with a handful of Congo natives, prompting Tarzan and Williams to pursue Rom. With the recent success of Disney’s live-action The Jungle Book, baring a similar theme and tone, you’d think The Legend of Tarzan would create identical buzz. To be fair, this reinvented Tarzan…