The story of King Leopold of Belgium’s brutal regime in the Congo Free State, during the late 19th century, is one of the darkest and most important in global history. It is a story of horror - the murky depths of the human soul pushed to its primal limits, European colonialism and the first Scramble for Africa, royalty and politics, celebrity, and modernity. From that pit of depravity, in which the Congolese people endured unimaginable suffering at the hands of their dehumanising western drivers, the first human rights campaign was born, and one of the most seminal novels of all time. So, how was it that the Congo, Africa’s as yet unplundered, un-impenetrable, and deeply mysterious core in the late 1870’s, became the private financial reservoir of one ambitious monarch, while Europe looked on? What occurred during the reign of terror he unleashed there, and why? And, who was King Leopold himself, the troubled, cunning and utterly twisted individual behind it all?

Join Dominic and Tom as they lead us - following in the footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley, the explorer who first pierced the shadowy veil of the Congo in Africa’s interior, and let it bleed into the hands of King Leopold himself - deep into the heart of darkness. As the curtain is lifted from the Congo’s formerly obscuring unknowability, her people's grotesque future of abominable exploitation is revealed, along with man’s capacity for evil, and the demonic greed of one man in particular…


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00:00 Intro
06:28 Introducing Leopold
14:33 Why the Congo?
24:35 Henry Morton Stanley comes into the picture
32:00 Congo before the Belgians
43:13 Leopold’s plan is sprung into action
57: 06 Leopold finally secures his fiefdom

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Producer: Theo Young-Smith
Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett
Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to carve out his very own private colonial domain, he had alighted upon the Congo - Africa’s vast and unplundered interior. With the help of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who had found a way to circumnavigate the Congo’s formerly insurmountable rapids, he concocted a cunning scheme to legally make it his own, while casting himself as a civilising saviour. Yet, despite his ostensibly philanthropic motivations, Leopold’s goal was always profit. More specifically, ivory, and later rubber, and before long a thriving hub of industry had been established in the Congo, bustling with soldiers, traders and missionaries. Meanwhile and most significantly, tens of thousands of Congolese people were being beaten, coerced and essentially enslaved into harvesting and carrying the riches of their land for their European oppressors. Their treatment was barbaric, the conditions in which they were made to live grotesque, and their suffering unimaginable. It was there, in King Leopold's Congo, that for years some of the worst violations of human life in all of human history were perpetrated. A terrible, secret heart of darkness, Until, at last, a young shipping clerk in Antwerp stumbled across something that would change the course of history forever...

Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss Western history’s most brutal and barbaric colonial conquest: King Leopold’s exploitation of the Congo Free

0:00 Intro
05:54 Leopold's true motivations come to the fore
18:37 The Force Publique
29:30 The Dawn of Rubber
38:51 The practice of cutting off hands
49:28 The first glimmers of criticism

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A history documentary on the wars which forged the Mali Empire!
In this series we trace the rise and fall of the Mali Empire. Part 1 (https://youtu.be/zQzjzVxKk74) covered the broad history of the region and the geopolitical events which set the stage for Sundiata's revolt against the Sosso Empire. In Part 2 we follow this Mankinka prince's campaigns which see him found the Mali Empire. We then cover the wars of conquest which led to the rise of this new kingdom to unprecedented heights.Sources:Spring, Christopher, African Arms and Armour, British Museum Press, 1993Walker, Robin, When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilizations, Black Classic Press, 2011Diop, Cheikh Anta, Precolonial Black Africa, A Cappella Books, 1988Niane, Djibril Tamsir, Sundiata: an Epic of Old Mali, Pearson Longman; 2nd edition, 2006Music:"Heart of Africa" by Luke PN"Misguided Path" by Bonnie Grace"Desert Footsteps" by Sight of Wonders"Savannah Nights" by Zauana"In the Trenches" by Jon Sumner"Desert Winds" by Jon Sumner"There is no Sequel" by Philip AyersCredits:Research = J. BelaScript = InvictaNarration = Guy MichaelsArt = Penta LimitedOther Units of AfricaNubian Archers https://youtu.be/qvO3_kYRRw8?s....i=uZU_v0llG8EEWzwSNu Cavalry https://youtu.be/3tv7EbkrX38?s....i=Od9YOK0f5umzjyBZSa Band of Carthage https://youtu.be/oX3y1GYcCEY?s....i=Wwn6eKMQPyAb-ww4Ca War Elephants https://youtu.be/hDSRHGFCWEo?s....i=FCL-J7gUvR_vS9ZlTi Intro02:49 Founding the Empire05:30 Government07:40 Military10:56 Early Campaigns12:46 Conquest of Bambuk14:20 Conquest of Futa Djallon15:26 Conquest of the West18:29 Consolidation19:43 Internal Troubles20:45 Recovery21:34 Outro#africa #history #documentary

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