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The 1882 Stanley Falls Station: Belgium's First Congo Foothold
Before Leopold II's rubber terror or the Force Publique's mutinies, there was a single outpost on the upper Congo River: Stanley Falls Station, established in 1882 by Henry Morton Stanley on behalf of the International Association of the Congo. This episode tells the story of that lonely station—its Arab trading partners, the Manyema ivory caravans, the fragile diplomacy with Tippu Tip, and the early tensions that foreshadowed the Congo-Arab War. We explore how a handful of Europeans and a hundred Zanzibari porters tried to claim the heart of Africa, and how the station became a…
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