Kasavubu began to dream of reviving the fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of Léopoldville’s commune ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and ... “I grew up thinking my father was dead,” Simone Ngalula, who was brought to Katende in 1952, told Smithsonian magazine’s ...