“The anti-clericalism of some Belgians falsified history by attributing the low level of education to "the racism of the missionaries", while it was they who provided education and educated the African elite with the first university priest Stefano Kaoze in 1917” EducationRacismColonialismCongoBelgiumBelgian CongoBelgiansMissionaries Book:The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“Scholarly studies have made missionaries the "pillars" of Belgian colonization, while, at least, evangelization and freedom of religion were compulsory programs of the Treaty of Berlin in 1885. Anticlericalism was thus militant and reductive, and falsified many aspects of history. It linked the low level, although widespread and free, of education to the racism of missionaries who would not have believed in the intellectual capacities of Blacks, even though they had started by training black priests or pastors’ counterparts.” CongoLeopold IiCongo Free StateMissionariesAnticlericism Author:Marcel Yabili
“This heroism was also that of the first missionaries. They had a life expectancy of about 5 years in Congo, and some were given extremely anointing at the time of their journey to Africa. There were many young idealists. Their graves are still lined up in the Mpala locality, which overlooks Lake Tanganyika. The Catholic mission was a fort where people who fled slavers and brutality took refuge.” AfricaCongoMissionariesCatholic MissionLake Tanganyika Book:The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba