Belgian Congo
Britishnoun
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In the former Belgian Congo, Simon Kimbangu is believed to have miraculously healed a sick woman in 1921, marking the early beginnings of the Kimbanguist church.
From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025
Born in South Africa in 1921 to a French father and British mother, Phyllis was orphaned at the age of four and went to live with an uncle in Jadotville in the Belgian Congo.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023
Elisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay was born on March 13, 1958, in Élisabethville, in what was then the Belgian Congo; the city is now Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022
My grandparents, who had managed to flee from Nazi-occupied Belgium to the Belgian Congo in 1943, were still there when they received Charles’ letter on Aug. 30, 1945.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2022
In the Belgian Congo and Uganda the results of heavy applications of DDT against an insect pest of the coffee bush were almost “catastrophic.”
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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