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“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.”

— Adam Hochschild

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century.…

— Angie Thomas

“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries…

— Anonymous

“The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like…

— Roméo Dallaire

“Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold’s regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The”

— Adam Hochschild

“Africa would have been the greatest continent, if it wasn’t for greedy people. Thieves who masquerade themselves as politicians. They all find their moral…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on…

— Rush Limbaugh

“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest…

— Adam Hochschild

“Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Did you know that Darfur was a great country long ago, so great that it was both in Sudan and also in Chad? Did…

— Daoud Hari