Tuesday, July 19, 2016

A Brutal Account of Colonialism in Africa Just Showed Up in the Most Unlikely of Places: Hollywood | The Nation

Legend of Tarzan still



 Some time ago I wrote a book about one of the great crimes of the last 150 years: the conquest and exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium. When King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa was published, I thought I had found all the major characters in that brutal patch of history. But a few weeks ago I realized that I had left one out: Tarzan.



A Brutal Account of Colonialism in Africa Just Showed Up in the Most Unlikely of Places: Hollywood | The Nation

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