{"id":1929,"date":"2007-07-05T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:59:16","slug":"king-leopolds-ghost-adam-hochschild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"King Leopold’s Ghost: – Adam Hochschild"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Leopold’s Ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa or “Kong Leopolds arv” in Norwegian, my latest book. Such stories we never did learn in school, but really should have. By reading this book you get a much better understanding of the story of Africa the past 100 years. I won’t try to retell it here, I would just recommend the book to you for sure!<\/p>\n

About the book (in Norwegian) http:\/\/www.dagbladet.no\/kultur\/2002\/07\/04\/341242.html
\nAbout the king http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leopold_II_of_Belgium<\/p>\n

\"Leopold\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Leopold’s Ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa or “Kong Leopolds arv” in Norwegian, my latest book. Such stories we never did learn in school, but really should have. By reading this book you get a much better understanding of the story of Africa the past 100 years. I won’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15661,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/15661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}