Supplemental Materials

Colonialism in the Congo: Conquest, Conflict, and Commerce

Colonialism in the Congo: Conquest, Conflict, and Commerce confronts students with the history of King Leopold's Congo Free-State and the international debate on how to respond. It provides a foundation for assessing the moral, political, cultural, and economic issues raised by colonialism.

Web Links

Animated Atlas of African History
 This interactive web atlas chronicles the course of colonization and decolonization, and post-colonial developments in Africa between 1879 and 2002. Economic and demographic changes are also covered.

The American Museum Congo Expedition
Explains the 1909-1915 expedition supported by the Museum of Natural History. Contains anthropological and zoological reports, resources, maps, links, and photographs.

The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The UN's current Congo peacekeeping mission website. Includes background, maps, press releases, etc.

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
 History of the country and links to several other websites.

Books

Birmingham, David and Phyllis Martin, eds. History of Central Africa, Volumes 1 and 2 (New York: Longman, 1983) 382 pages.

Cookey, S.J.S. Britain and the Congo Question. (New York: Humanities Press, 1968) 314 pages.

Edgerton, Robert S. The Troubled Heart of Africa. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002) 246 pages.

Ewans, Martin. European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, The Congo Free State, and its Aftermath. (New York: Routledge, 2002) 253 pages.

Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) 306 pages.

Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. (New York: Avon Books, 1991) 680 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, Colonialism in the Congo: Conquest, Conflict, and Commerce. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.