Belgian Congo
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Sep 14, 2026
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in the story of Cry Vengeance, starring Barton Yarborough and Michael Ruffetto.
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A tale told in the Belgian Congo of violence, death, and greed, which brought two men to a stern justice.
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Two men trapped in a pitfall of their own obsession.
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THE END The Belgian Congo is a vast place where strangeness is as commonplace as the predatory animals which roam the jungles.
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It is a place also of loneliness and where isolation is a thing of necessity, not of choice.
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On a back trail, two men ride toward a destination charted on a map of greed.
CianHOST
It's one called Thunda from 1952.
CianHOST
The full title is Thunda, King of the Congo.
CianHOST
And it was entirely drawn by none other than Frank Frazetta, well-known illustrator of fantasy and science fiction.
CianHOST
And for his work in comics, less so perhaps.
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CianHOST
So let's see what he came up with.
CianHOST
We're going to go through this issue.
CianHOST
So Thundek, King of the Congo, front page is...
CianHOST
Old fashioned and offensive.
Neil DelamereHOST
Let me ask you this.
Neil DelamereHOST
What is the connection between the Belgian Congo and the Irish Air Corps? Yeah, if you get this right, we're just going to stop this podcast and I'm bringing you on the road as a medium, basically.
Neil DelamereHOST
The
Dave MooreHOST
Belgian Congo and the Irish Air Corps.
Dave MooreHOST
Oh, I actually, I know this.
Dave MooreHOST
I know this.
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Neil DelamereHOST
Before that...
Neil DelamereHOST
He was in the UK Civil Service.
OrianaHOST
Sir Francis Shepard had seen a great deal in his years of diplomatic service.
OrianaHOST
Haiti, the Belgian Congo, postings where orders were vague and chaos sat just beneath the surface.
OrianaHOST
Countries where foreign powers set the terms and local governments learned to live within them.
OrianaHOST
Iran, to his mind, was not so different.
Saara El-ArifiGUEST
I don't, you know, I, I don't shy away from that.
Saara El-ArifiGUEST
I think I wrote The Final Strife thinking, "This is never gonna be published." Um, it's an entirely Black cast and, um, it's raw and it's bru- bru- brutal and includes elements of my education that I thought was missing in, um, the British curriculum, uh, things like, uh, the Belgian Congo.
Saara El-ArifiGUEST
Um, anyway, yeah, so it's my Black pain book.
Saara El-ArifiGUEST
On the flip side, we have Faebound, which is my Black joy book.
Rhiannon NeadsHOST
It was a haphazard and anarchic passing of the baton, one that the historian and author Stuart A. Reid has spent years studying.
Rhiannon NeadsHOST
Through a morass of declassified CIA reports and various conflicting accounts, he's documented the end of the Belgian Congo and the Republic's bloody transition to democracy.
Rhiannon NeadsHOST
He'll be our guide to these strained and significant years, a time in which this African nation became yet another pawn in the great game between East and West.
Stuart A. ReidGUEST
I'm the author of The Lumumba Plot, and I'm a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Rhiannon NeadsHOST
It was within touching distance.
Rhiannon NeadsHOST
What that also meant was a renewed scrutiny for all of the emerging political leaders.
Rhiannon NeadsHOST
As they vied for position, the incumbent Belgian Congolese government watched, and Lumumba's every move was clocked.
Rhiannon NeadsHOST
At a crucial time in his political career, independence was now a case of when and how, not if.
GinaHOST
Moyen Congo was the commercial and administrative hub of the French Equatorial Africa colonies.
GinaHOST
So like Belgian Congo, French colonial administration was brutal.
GinaHOST
Forced labor, especially for rubber extraction and railway construction.
GinaHOST
Remember the Congo-Ocean Railway was built from 1921 to 1934 and caused an estimated 17,000 deaths amongst the forced laborers.
Thomas777GUEST
And as I stated, the largest stockpile of uranium in Europe was in Belgium.
Thomas777GUEST
And it was a sizable industry for extracting uranium from uranium ores imported from the Belgian Congo as well.
Thomas777GUEST
So in Belgium, you didn't just have the raw stores of uranium.
Thomas777GUEST
It was like the infrastructure to, you know, process it in basic ways to make it Utah.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
And it has some very dangerous effects in terms of the justification of empire because once you Once you think some people are beyond help, that they'll simply never develop to the status of the white man or whatever the way people might think about it, then it doesn't really matter what you do to them.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
So I think things like what happens in the Belgian Congo and so on in the end of the 19th century, even going into the 20th century, you can see some of that idea, like there's no point in civilising these people anymore.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
So you get that as well.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
And then you get, I really thought when I started writing this book, which of course was about six or seven years before it actually came out, I did think that there was basically those two ideas for the two possibilities that were out there.
Joe ForteVOICE_ACTOR
Miss Brooks, where are you going?
Eve ArdenVOICE_ACTOR
I thought I'd run down to the Belgian Congo for the weekend.
Joe ForteVOICE_ACTOR
Sit down, Miss Brooks.
Joe ForteVOICE_ACTOR
Young man, what were you doing in that window seat? If you'll only give me a chance, Mr.
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