1. Colonialism and the Congo

2. 35% 85%
1800 1914

3. The Rhodes Colossus
Striding from Cape Town to Cairo
Punch, 10 December 1892

5. Udo J. Keppler, "From the Cape to Cairo," Puck
Magazine, 10 December 1902.

7. Kipling Collage
1. “White Man’s burden” (the colonizers)
2. Colonized People (the colonized)
3. Take up! (the mission)

9. Congo Timeline
• 1870s - Belgian King Leopold II sets about colonizing the area as his
private holding.
• 1884 – At Berlin Conference, European powers grant Congo Free
State to absolute control of King Leopold.
• 1908 - Congo Free State placed under Belgian rule following
outrage over treatment of Congolese.
• 1960 - Independence, followed by civil war and temporary
fragmentation of country.
• 1965 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power.
• 1997 - Rebels oust Mobutu. Laurent Kabila becomes president.
• 1997-2003 - Civil war, drawing in several neighbouring countries
(Africa's first world war).
• 2003 - 2012 - Conflict persists in the east.
• 2006 - Presidential elections.

10. King Leopold II
King of Belgium
(1865-1909)

12. “They only tell what is against me.“

13. "My yearly income from the Congo
is millions of guineas.“

14. Reprinted from Mark
Twain's pamphlet, "King
Leopold’s Soliloquy.“
Before 1905.

15. In the Rubber Coils.
Scene – The Congo “Free” State. (1906)

16. Chained Congolese slaves on
a Belgian rubber plantation.

18. Ivory trading in the Congo

19. European missionary.