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The obvious answer is the Belgian Congo, which we're told was some horrid and cruel crushing domain of Leopold's, yet was really a colonial gem that brought the natives the only good governance they ever got Remember, what Livingstone and Stanley found were cruel Arab slavers from Zanzibar working with cannibal chieftains to capture and lead off countless columns of slaves for the markets of Arabia. It was they who often indulged in chopping off hands to send a message, all while inflicting the worst forms of slavery and suffering on the horribly oppressed population. Such was how life had been in the Congo for as long as anyone could remember...nasty, brutish, and short Such is also what the Belgians--including under Leopold II's Congo Free State--poured immense resources into stamping out, and they've been slandered for it forever For example, the hand chopping was done by the slavers and cannibals they were stamping out, not them, yet the horrid pictures of what they had ended was used as evidence against them by avaricious Brits who wanted the Congo for themselves Yet still they ended it, and spent decades turning the heart of darkness into a jewel of the colonial world that was so peaceful and pleasant that Europeans visited it on vacation! For once, they Congolese got prosperity and good governance, and the Belgians got to mine the minerals of Katanga. Then they were forced out by decolonization, and the Congo has been reverting to the horrid Stone Age ever since, with the infrastructure and industry left by the Belgians falling to pieces as endless anarchy and civil war destroyed any semblance of good government This is the same sort of story from across the colonial world. What the Europeans brought with them was not slavery and suffering, but good governance and freedom from the horrors that had long afflicted the non-West Such is the legacy of colonialism, including the Belgian Congo
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