the size of all western europe combined. it should be africa s wealthiest nation. the people forget, or never even knew, that the 20th century s first holocaust happened here when belgium s king leopold managed to bamboozle the world giving him personal title to the congo. leopold s agents of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated, and pressed into forced labor much of the population, in a bloodthirsty quest for first ivory and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could, and left behind a completely unprepared tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass, filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted.
[ speaking foreign language ] dan: we need this boat to move here now. how do we do this? anthony: let s get underway before they figure a new tax to levy on us. people: bye. bye, bye. anthony: our trip downriver will take us some 120 kilometers even deeper into the jungle. but instead of kurtz and his ivory horde, a crumbling belgian research center with a shadowy past awaits us at our destination. this is a turn of the century map, so kisangani was then called stanleyville. leopoldville, that would be here. dan: well, it s 3,000 kilometers or something like that. anthony: we have a long way to go if we re taking the full
this then is the congo. the size of all western europe combined. it should be africa s wealthiest nation. but people forget, or never even knew, that the 20th century s first holocaust happened here when belgium s king leopold managed to bamboozle the world into giving him personal title to the congo. leopold s agents of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated and pressed into forced labor much of the population, in a bloodthirsty quest for first ivory and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could, and left behind a completely unprepared tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass, filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted.
finding food along the way, it s anticipated, will be a challenge. refrigeration of any kind is impossible. okay. well, i m psyched. my dream has finally come true. blocked by officials? this could be months. okay. let the probing begin. [ speaking foreign language ] now, how do we do this? let s get under way before they figure a new tax to levy on us. our trip down river will take us some 120 kilometers even deeper into the jungle. but instead of kurtz and his
now, how do we do this? let s get under way before they figure a new tax to levy on us. our trip down river will take us some 120 kilometers even deeper into the jungle. but instead of kurtz and his ivory horde, a crumbling belgian research center with a shadowy past awaits us at our destination. it s the turn of the century map, so kisangani was then called stanleyville. leopoldville would be here. 3,000 kilometers or something like that. a long way to go, and we re taking a full ride. that s what we re doing, right? all the way to the atlantic?