Cost of Congo ep2-2

While Europe sipped its morning coffee, the headlines spoke of a noble mission in the

heart of Africa. Maps depicted a vast, empty wilderness, ready to be

tamed. A land of immense resources, seemingly devoid of its people.

But the truth was hidden beneath the canopy. Rubber and blood became the currency

of progress. In private salons, the rhetoric of morality masked the cold calculation of

immense profit. With a stroke of a pen, a King claimed a continent,

disguising absolute control as benevolence.