ALEXANDRE DELCOMMUNE


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Alexandre Delcommune

At present you are frightened of everything; you make a secret of where you sleep … You have neither peace nor tranquility. To change all that, all you have to do is accept the protection of Boula-Matari, to fly the flag with the star at each of your villages, and then things will calm down and peace and plenty will return to your country.
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Both the British and the Belgians were vying for Katanga to become a part of their empire. Msiri, it’s king was a cruel tyrant, was hated by his people, many of whom he had had murdered. Each night he slept in a different hut for fear of assassination. The appeal was typical of European powers “persuading” African potentates to join their empires.

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Alexandre Delcommune
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Alexandre Delcommune
  • Born: October 6, 1855
  • Died: August 7, 1922
  • Nationality: Belgian
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Alexandre Delcommune was a Belgian officer of the armed Force Publique of the Congo Free State who undertook extensive explorations of the country during the early colonial period of the Congo Free State. He explored many of the navigable waterways of the Congo Basin, and led a major expedition to Katanga between 1890 and 1893.