Sultan Djabir
Videos
Sultan Djabir was ruler of a region on the Uele River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He engaged in the ivory and slave trade with Muslims from the north and with Belgians from th
Sultan Djabir in 1894 wearing the uniform of the Force Publique
En Avant (steam launch)
Videos
The En Avant was a small steam launch used in the early days of European exploration of the Congo River basin. It was carried in sections past the cataracts of the lower Congo, reassembled at Stanley
En Avant on the Congo River 1889
En Avant (L), A.I.A. (C) and Roi des Belges (R) — Leopoldville, 1889
The River Congo seen from the plateau at Manyanga
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) in 1884