DR Congo – a Ben Affleck/Scorsese project

 
Colonial atrocities left their mark on Africa and nowhere more obviously than in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A recently announced movie to be directed by Ben Affleck and produced by Martin Scorsese based on Adam Hochschild’s best-selling book King Leopold’s Ghost will throw a bleak spotlight on what was truly the heart of darkness in the centre of the continent.
In the late 19th Century King Leopold of Belgium founded and was sole owner of the Congo Free State which