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The 1901 Boma Mutiny: Congolese Soldiers vs Belgian Officers
In 1901, the Force Publique garrison in Boma, the capital of the Congo Free State, staged a mutiny that shook the Belgian colonial administration. This episode revisits the uprising led by Sergeant Mulamba Nsanda, a Tetela soldier who had previously fought for the Belgians in the Arab Campaign. We explore the brutal conditions in the camp, the use of the chicotte whip, the mutineers' demands for better treatment and pay, and the swift, violent suppression by Belgian officers like Charles Lemaire and Louis Liebrechts. The mutiny exposed deep fractures in King Leopold II's colonial…
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