Hochschild talks about an African chief, Nzansu, who fought for years against the whites in the Congo in a large rebellion. The whites were determined to defeat and kill him, yet there is no mention of his fate. Why would this be?
I think it's interesting to think of how Nzansu was one of the whites' greatest opposers, yet there was no mention of his death. The motives behind that interest me. It was one of the quotes that stuck with me most after I first did the reading. We had a good discussion hypothesizing motives for this, some of which were that Leopold didn't want the world to know there was opposition in his supposedly philanthropic colony to no one bothered to record it. I think it's fascinating how so many people must have either been there or known about the event, yet we have no idea what happened today.
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