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Truth About Congo As the Congo readies for a new chapter in its history, the imperative to tell the truth about what i Stanley.

This discussion is dedicated to George Washington Williams, an African-American journalist, minister, lawyer, politician and soldier who traveled to then then-called Congo Free State in 1890 and wrote an open letter to Belgian King Leopold II, which put the truth to the gross-mischaraterizations of Congolese life rampant through the writings of Anglo-American journalist H.M. As a result of Stanley

’s promoting Congo as a source of vast, untapped wealth, the Belgian colonization was a brutal and at times rapacious humiliation of the Congolese, millions of whom perished. Williams reported on what he saw in Congo and in so doing helped coin the the expression “human rights” as it is commonly used today. As the Congo now prepares for a new chapter in its development as a modern state, the imperative to tell the truth about what is happening on the ground here is important as ever.

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