The railroad of blood
The railroad of blood
In this episode of Lumumba’s Africa, Professor P.L.O. Lumumba turns his critical eye to one of the darkest chapters of French colonial engineering: the construction of the Congo-Ocean Railway. Often framed as a triumph of modernization, the professor says it is more accurately described as a blood railway – a project built on forced labor, mass displacement, and state-sanctioned brutality.
