How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire

Mongabay
Jun 26, 2020, 7:27 pm232 pts
Between 1885 and 1908, Belgium’s King Leopold II exerted control over a vast area of Africa that would later become the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His rule was characterized by systematic brutality that led to the deaths of an estimated 10 million people and one of the first recorded uses of the term…

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