King Leopold's Ghost
What is it about Leopold that drives him to want the Congo? How does he go about claiming it?

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The basic theme of the text is the process of colonialism, the extension of one nation's sovereignty over a territory beyond its borders. The specific instance of colonialism most-closely examined in the text is Leopold's establishment of an administrative dependency in the Congo, causing its native peoples to be directly ruled by a distant and absentee administration. Leopold wanted to exploit the Congo.