Leopold II's Congo and the scramble for Africa, 1876-1880

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 117-119 · open book

  the efforts of King Leopold II of Belgium, using Henry Stanley, to obtain the Congo area as his own preserve in 1876-1880, started a contagious fever of colony-grabbing in Africa which lasted for more than thirty years

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