Archives Africaines (Belgium)

The Archives Africaines of the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs in Brussels contains records related to colonial Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1885-1962.

"As early as 1888 Leopold II created an archival service for his Congo Free State that operated as part of the Departement de l'Interieur at Brussels.

The king established the archives as his personal property, however; and in 1906 the major part of the administrative records of the Congo Free State were systematically destroyed.

[6] Archivists of the Archives Africaines have included Claudine Dekais (circa 1996).

[8] Madeleine van Grieken-Taverniers was archivist of the Ministere des Colonies, circa 1955-1958.

Congo Free State printing office at Boma , circa 1890s-1900s