"Freedom of trade and navigation in the Congo Basin, exclusion from any differential treatment, assimilation of foreigners to nationals in civil and commercial terms, prohibition of entry rights for twenty years, condemnation of trafficking. There is only one downside: the African work does not have the international character that he would have liked."
— Berlin Conference

January 1, 1970

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), Emile Banning (1836-1898): The Don Quichotte of the ‘liberal civilization’ in Congo Banning was able to leave the Berlin Conference with his head held high, however, as many of its principles had triumphed tentatively and theoretically. On the so-called division of Africa, which took place in the wings of the International Conference of Berlin between November 1