The Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference was a meeting organized in two parts in 1960 in Brussels between on the one side representatives of the Congolese political class and chiefs and on the other
Opening meeting of the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference on 20 January 1960
Kasa-Vubu seated at the Conference
Jean Bolikango seated at the Conference
Patrice Lumumba with members of the MNC-L delegation
Decolonisation of Africa
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The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa between the mid-1950s to 1976, during the Cold War. Colonial governments formed during the Scramble for Africa collapsed,
Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference
…security climate and the rising feeling of insecurity among colonial settlers. The general sentiment of the inevitable and irreversible process of the decolonization of Africa. Deteriorating local economy (the public debt of the colony rose from 4 to 46 billion Belgian franc between 1949 and 1960…
Equestrian statue of Leopold II of Belgium, the sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908, Regent Place in Brussels, Belgium
A Muslim mosque in Algeria
Monument to those killed in the first independence protest, the Sétif and Guelma massacre
Algerian women in the Algerian War of Independence