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“... joined in the applause. In Leopoldville, everything went immediately and hideously off the rails.Ludo DeWitte’s description makes clear that this derailment was far more than a spoiled ritual. Within minutes, it had torn the mask off Africa’s future relationship to the West and released all the ill-suppressed ...”

“... Ascherson recorded that between 1896 and 1906, Leopold cleared a personal profit in his ‘domaine de la couronne’ of nearly £3 million – perhaps £500 million in today’s money – from his own businesses and franchise fees. It was largely on these takings that the museum was founded, furnished and redeveloped. This history would have to be ...”