THE CURSE OF CENTRAL AFRICA

THE CURSE OF CENTRAL AFRICA by Captain Guy Burrows, Late District Commissioner of the Aruwimi District of the Congo Free State, Chevalier de L'ordre du Lion.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour folding map, six plates, and many full-paged and in-text illustrations. Blue pictorial cloth. 276 pages.

Book condition: An ex-library copy with the usual ink stamps and loan cards. Binding not solid but this copy will appear in a good enough condition among other similer books on your shelve. First front endpapge loos from the binding.

A study into the issues of Central Africa at the turn of the century. Interestingly this work is dedicated to Leopold II of Belgium, though the work also condemns him and his behaviour as the absolute rule of the Congo Free State, a position he held from 1885 to 1908. The King's administration pleaded ignorance to the atrocities the Belgium's committed in the Congo.