At the end of the 19th century, when the European powers divided Africa for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium carried out a brutal sacking of the territory surrounding the Congo river that provoked the death of over 10 million Africans. A rich and perturbing story, it describes a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the moving portrait of African rebels who did not kneel and a handful of valiant missionaries and explorers who traveled to Africa in search of adventure and instead became witnesses to a genocide ...
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At the end of the 19th century, when the European powers divided Africa for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium carried out a brutal sacking of the territory surrounding the Congo river that provoked the death of over 10 million Africans. A rich and perturbing story, it describes a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the moving portrait of African rebels who did not kneel and a handful of valiant missionaries and explorers who traveled to Africa in search of adventure and instead became witnesses to a genocide. El fantasma del rey Leopoldo relata como a finales del siglo XIX, cuando las potencias europeas se repart???an ???frica a golpe de escuadra, el rey Leopoldo II de B???lgica llev??? a cabo un brutal saqueo del territorio que rodeaba el r???o Congo. Provoc??? la muerte de diez millones de personas mientras cultivaba, ir???nicamente, su fama de monarca humanitario. El fantasma del rey Leopoldo es un relato rico y perturbador: es la descripci???n de un megal???mano de proporciones monstruosas; y es tambi???n el retrato conmovedor de quienes desafiaron a Leopoldo, los dirigentes rebeldes africanos que lucharon a la desesperada y un pu???ado de valientes misioneros, viajeros y j???venes idealistas que fueron a ???frica en busca de trabajo o aventura y que acabaron siendo testigos de un genocidio.
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