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The Congo Independent State was founded in 1885 by Leopold II., King of the Belgians, and the State was placed under his sovereignty, but its perpetual neutrality, in accordance with the provision of Chapter III. of the General Act of Berlin (1885), was guaranteed. [Concerning this Act, see Statesman’s Year-Book for 1908—p. 874.]
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Books of Reference concerning the Belgian Congo
1. Official
Anglo-Congolese Convention of May 12, 1894. and May 9, 1906.
The Bulletin Officiel du Congo Belge succeeds from Nov. 15, 1908, the Bulletin Officiel de l’Etat Indépendant. Brussels.
Bulletin Agricole du Congo Belge.
Renseignements de l’Office Colonial.
Bulletin Administratif et Commercial, published fortnightly at Boma.
Journal Administratif du Vice-Gouvernement Général du Katanga, published fortnightly at Elizabethville.
Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the Belgians in the name of the International Association of the Congo. London, 1885.—Correspondence with Her Majesty’s Ambassador at Berlin respecting West African Conference. London, 1885.—Franco-Congolese Convention of August 14, 1894.—General Act of the Conference held at Brussels in 1890—Protocols and General Act of the West African Conference. London, 1885.—L’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Documents sur le Pays et ses Habitants. Brussels.
Correspondence, and Report from His Majesty’s Consul at Boma, respecting the administration of the Independent State of the Congo. London, various Blue-Books.
Kuck (C.), Belges! Connaissons notre Congo. London, 1918.
2. Unofficial
Alexis (M. G. F.), Notre Colonie en 1910.
Anton (G. R.), and Barnhaupt (C.), Kongostaat und Kongo Reform. Munich, 1911.
Bertrand (J.), Le Congo Belge. Brussels, 1909.
Blanchard (G.), Formation et Constitution Politique de l’Etat Independant du Congo. Paris, 1899.
Boulger (D. C.), The Congo State. London, 1898.
Bourne (H. R. F.), Civilization in Congoland. London, 1903.
Büchler (M.), Der Kongostaat Leopolds II. 2 vols. Zurich, 1913.
Bardo (A.), Les Belges dans l’Afrique centrale. 6 vols. Brussels. 1891.
Castelein (A.), L’État du Congo, ses origines, ses droits, ses devoirs, le réquisitoire de ses accusateurs. Brussels, 1907.
Cattier (F.), Droit et Administration de l’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1898.
Étude sur la situation de l’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1906.
Deseamps (Baron E.), L’Afrique Nouvelle. Brussels, 1903. Also English Translatio London, 1903.
Dubreucq (R.), A travers le Congo Belge. Brussels, 1909.
Durand (E.) and (H.), Sylioge Florae Congolanae. Brussels, 1909. Goffart (F.) et Morissen (G.), Le Congo: Géographie physique, politique et économique. Brussels, 1908.
Gohr (A.), De l’Organisation judiciaire et de la compétence en matière civile et commerciale au Congo. Liège, 1910.
Goffin (A.), Les pêcheries et les Poissons du Congo. Brussels, 1909.
Halewyck (M.), La Charte Coloniale. Brussels, 1910.
Harris (J. H.), Dawn in Darkest Africa. London, 1912.
Huterau (A.), Documents Ethnographiques Congolais. Brussels, 1910.
Jack (Major E. M.), On the Congo Frontier. Travel and Sport. London, 1914.
Johnston (Sir H. H.), The River Congo. London, 1895.—The Colonisation of Africa. Cambridge. 1899.
Keith (A. B.), The Belgian Congo and the Berlin Act. London, 1919.
Keltie (J. Scott), The Partition of Africa. 2nd Edition. London, 1896.
Michaux (C.), Pourquoi et comment nous devons Coloniser. Brussels, 1910.
Morel (E. D.), Affairs of West Africa. London, 1902.—King Leopold’s Rule in Africa, London, 1904.—Red Rubber. With Introduction by Sir H. Johnston. London, 1906.—Great Britain and the Congo. London, 1909.
Ortroy (F. Van), Conventions Internationales concernant l’Afrique. Brussels, 1898.
Paque (E. A. J.), Notre Colonic Étude pratiçue sur le Congo Belge. Namur, 1910.
Pierantoni (R.), Le Congrès de Berlin et l’ Etat Independant du Congo. Brussels, 1901.
Reclus (E.), Nouvelle géographie universelle. Vol. XIII. Paris, 1888.
Roby (M.), My Adventures in the Congo. London, 1911.
Stanley (H. M.), The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. 2 vols. London, 1885.—Through the Dark Continent. 2 vols. London, 1878.
Van Der Linden (Fr.), Le Congo, les noirs et nous. 1890.
Waltz (H.), Das Konzessionswesen im Belgischen Kongo. 2 vols. Jena, 1917
Wauters (A. J.). L Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1899.—Bibliographie de Congo (1880–95). Brussels, 1S96.—De Bruxelles à Karema. Brussels, 1901.—Histoire Politique du Congo belge. Brussels, 1912.
Weeks (John), Among the Primitive Bakongo. London, 1914.
White (A. Silva), The Development of Africa. London, 1890.
Wiese (K.), Belgisch-Kongo. Berlin, 1916.
Wildeman (É. de), Les Plantes Tropicales de Grande Culture. Brussels, 1902.
Wildeman (É. de), et Gentil (L.), Lianes eaoutchoutifères de l’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1903.
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Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (1919). Belgian Congo. In: Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270480_18
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