Although at times King Leopold's Ghost was a hard read it never failed to get across the horrid things that were done in the Congo by King Leopold II. It's hard to imagine that something so wrong that was done at such a large scale was forgotten. It's unimaginable that for even us Americans, where we are so far away, and always seem to be caught only in things that directly concern our own benefits don't know about the holocaust that took place in Africa; but also that Jules Marchal, a Belgian ambassador to countries in West Africa, did not even know about what his own country did to the Congo ending only 70 years prior to him being ambassador.
King Leopold's Ghost was an eye opener not only to what happened in the Congo, the place the book focused on, but it also said that these events took place where other countries were colonizing in Africa. It's hard to believe that history can seem to be so easily forgotten and changed.
Roger Casement
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