Content note: Colonial settlement booklet cover showing Congolese labourers working under white settlers and overseers. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Congo belge: Allez-y & faites comme eux! (cover, Librairie Coloniale, Brussels, c.1922)
Cover of a Belgian colonial booklet priced 3 francs: under the title "Congo belge, Allez-y & faites comme eux!" a white-suited settler stands among crops beside a Congolese worker, oxen are driven past a farmhouse, and a sawing scene with white overseers sits before colonial buildings. The tell: "faites comme eux" ("do as they do") offers the pictured settlers as the crowd to join (bandwagon).
- Date
- 1922
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Librairie Coloniale R. Weverbergh, Brussels (credited: Lt N. Laude)
- Country
- Belgium
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Belgian Monarchy
- Leader
- Albert I
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Techniques
- Bandwagon
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the US (published before 1931); Commons file page carries the PD-old template and dates the cover 1922
Congo belge: Allez-y & faites comme eux!, cover, Librairie Coloniale R. Weverbergh, Brussels, c.1922. Wikimedia Commons (PD-old).
Text on the object
CONGO BELGE ALLEZ-Y & FAITES COMME EUX ! [signature, lower left:] Lt N. Laude [price, lower right:] 3 Fr. [imprint, bottom edge:] Librairie Coloniale, R. WEVERBERGH, Bruxelles [handwritten, top right:] 3.00 [library stamp, lower left, partly legible:] III 0577 B
Belgian Congo. Go there, and do as they do!
Translation is FRAME's literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. Earlier draft lines ("Le Congo belge a besoin de vous", "Des terres fertiles") are not on the cover and were removed.
