Évolué
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In the Belgian and French colonial empires, an évolué was an African who had been Europeanised through education and assimilation and had accepted European values and patterns of behaviour. Évolués sp
Évolués in the Belgian Congo studying medicine in Medical School of Yakusu Hospital, near Kisangani.
A social club in the Belgian Congo, c. 1943.
Belgian Congo
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The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. It is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Évolué
…European rather than indigenous laws, usually held white-collar jobs (though rarely higher than clerks), and lived primarily in urban areas. In the Belgian Congo (modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), most évolués emerged from the Congolese who filled skilled positions (such as clerks and nurses) made…
Leopold II, King of the Belgians and de facto owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908
Children mutilated during King Leopold II's rule
Former residence of the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1908–1923) located in Boma
On the left hand side, the former Ministry of the Colonies, adjacent to the Constitutional Court, Brussels