The map, from Exploring Africa, has colour-coded each language into the seven families, which include Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Khosian, Niger-Congo / Congo-Kordofanian, Creole, Austronesian ...

Pierre Boone, a Belgian anthropologist and cartographer at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, revised the map in 1935 ... British Uganda and the Belgian Congo. These weren't just boundaries ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...