Learn more about a not-so-well-known colonizer, Belgium

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A BBC article on King Leopold II and his legacy | The scramble for Africa (Wikipedia) | Prisoners of geography by Tim Marshall (Amazon) | A profile of Edmund Morel, an abolitionist who exposed slavery in the Congo | How Janssen, J&J's pharma arm with a Covid-19 vaccine, is connected to Belgium's colonization of the Congo (YouTube)