ABSTRACT
In the tropical rainforest, Europeans and Arabs would risk their lives in the greedy reach for wealth, and in the process inflict senseless pain on the African continent. Tippu Tip’s concentration on the eastern coast of Africa left an opening for the Belgians, French, and British to compete for the right to exploit Africans in the Congo-Sudan region. The history of Africa is full of examples of people who have been resilient in refusing domination, even if it has meant opposing other Africans who promote alien idea. The Africans were neither as ruthless nor as well-armed as the troops under the protection of king Leopold’s money. Henry Morton Stanley’s troops attempted to teach the Africans a lesson by destroying all villages along the river. The European operators forced their police and soldiers to carry out the most heinous crimes without a sense of the humanity of the people they were humiliating and killing.
