The local people are being treated similarly to the inhabitants of the Belgian Congo in the 19th century.
The only money was in touring Africa, playing jazz clubs from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo).
It will be an adaptation of Ronan Bennett's novel "The Catastrophist, " a love story set against the Belgian Congo's decolonisation in the 1960s.
He travelled to the most exotic and remote places: China under Japanese occupation, the Soviet Union, Belgian Congo, Egypt, India, South America, etc.
His application listed 26 books he said he'd read between August 1969 and January 1970 while writing his dissertation on educational systems in the Belgian Congo.
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He recalled in his interview on Swiss television, that when he was born in Beirut at the onset of the Great Depression in October 1929, he received Belgian Congo bonds as a gift.
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It was formally in occupation in West Germany and Japan, and it was the de facto power in a variety of places from Dutch Indonesia to the Belgian Congo, from most of Latin America to much of Indochina.
Indeed, the decay of Congo's Belgian-built roads, which in 1960 ran to over 100, 000km, must rank as one of the greatest boons to forests since the Black Death.
So said Karel de Gucht, the Belgian foreign minister, who visited Congo last week.
For example, when the Belgian government said it would resume aid to Congo, the opposition parties joined forces for once, and accused Belgium of wanting the division of the country and undermining the Lusaka accords.
One of this year's most intriguing entries is by Sammy Baloji, who superimposes colonial black and white archive photos of Belgian-run mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo and places them over his color images of the decaying mines as seen today.
His mission to find Manono, a 1950s model town built by a Belgian mining company in the rarely visited interior of eastern Congo, is illuminated as much by the detours as the destination.
Last week, Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Didier Reynders is said to have told DR Congo President Joseph Kabila that his credibility was being affected by his failure to arrest Gen Ntaganda.
The actual killing was done by fighters from the Congo along with Belgians- and with the almost certain connivance of the Belgian government who hated him even more than the American and the British.
Few institutions in Congo have escaped the country's steady slide into ruin, and the university, built by its Belgian founders to be central Africa's biggest and best, is no exception.
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