Lumumba plus Q & A with Congolese Association, 17 February
Sunday 17 February 2pm-5.30pmImperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1Tube: Lambeth North.Free entry: First come,first served (15 years and over) www.iwm.org.uk European countries were still trading in Africans and chopping off their hands in the 20th century. Forced labour was used in the tin-rich Jos plateau of Nigeria and the diamond mines of the Congo during […]
White King, Red Rubber, Black Death, 21 March
Saturday 21 March 2pm-4.30pm BFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall) Belvedere Road SE1 Tube: Waterloo. Tickets ₤5 Phone 0207 928 3232 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank King Leopold II of Belgium in the early 20th century turned the Congo into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which he killed millions and amputated the hands of tens of thousands […]