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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild is a story of the brutal colonial regime in Congo under King Leopold II of a small European country, Belgium. Not only does the author Hochschild succeeds to tell the story of the King Leopold like a novel, but also he deflates the hero status of people like Henry Morton Stanley, Edmund D. ... Surprisingly, King Leopold II of Belgium is not much remembered today outside his home country despite of his brutalism in his small colony, Congo. ...
King Leopold II, born in 1835, was a greedy man who was never satisfied with his small infant country, comparable size of its Maryland in the U. ... He felt that by owning more than just his small country, that he would somehow be validated as a King. ... However, it is obvious that colonies existed for one purpose: to make him and his country rich (p38)
There was an important figure helped King’s dream come true. ... His major accomplishment to the king Leopold was to create Leopolds Congo Free State and British possessions on the upper Nile in the 1880s. ... As a result, it became the first country do recognize King Leopold II’s claim to the Congo. ...
As the issue on the Congo got hotter and hotter internationally, the king used lobbying, bribery to cover up; however, at last he had to make a decision of selling his beloved colony to his government with suggesting much larger amount of money.
Approximate Word count = 1238
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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