King Leopold's Ghost: The Congo And Nigeria

European exploration has been in the making even before Columbus. Trading of all sorts were being sought after; plants used for medicine or food, and even humans. It is a fascinating subject to study and discuss about how a man becomes so wrapped up in slavery and cheap money. People being taken advantage of and overworked. These are the coming times that societies were facing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Expansions to areas where, as discussed in class, people were considered third world and how the industrial revolution would grasp the new colonies in Africa. They really do not have much, as viewed from other people coming in. The two main countries in Africa that the books talk about are The Congo and Nigeria, where old styles of living were still persistent at the time. Tactics being used on these cultures would be easy, because they have yet to become as advanced as the rest of the world. King Leopold used tactics in such a way as a little kid would complain about not getting their way, sort-to-speak. In a way, yes money would be brought to the country and crown of the king, but only through force. After all, one of the prefaces to the book, “King Leopold’s
Of course, like any other new land people come across odds are you are going to find out that they may speak a different language. King Leopold took this as an opportunity to gain the Congo, because none of the inhabitants could speak or understand what Leopold was saying. In the book “Things Fall Apart by C. Achebe,” there is an instance that when an explorer comes to a tribe in Nigeria the translator thinks he is saying one thing, but he is saying another. Through these accounts we can tell that culture and language are a barrier between new coming relations of different countries. With the language barrier set, it can now be easy to take over the