Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GRADIENTS (Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908))

After the Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884–1885 recognised the International Association of the Congo’s sovereignty over the Congo Basin, Leopold II, King of the Belgians, became the head of the newly established Congo Free State. In the words of Belgian Prime...