Belgian Congo Ruanda Urundi Africa Pictorial Map

Original vintage Africa travel poster for the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi featuring a pictorial map of the area with colourful illustrations of people in traditional tribal wear and masks, some holding spears and shields, tools and musical instruments, various wild animals including elephants, giraffes, rhinos, zebras, buffalo, birds, lions and antelopes, as well as industry, towns and natural rivers, lakes and mountains marked on the landscape with an image of a smiling person next to the title text below and the information above - Tourist Bureau for the Belgian Congo and the Ruanda-Urundi Head Office POB 2466 Bukavu Belgian Congo. The Belgian Congo was owned by King Leopold II before it was taken over as a Belgian colony from 1908 until independence in 1960, becoming the Republic of the Congo Leopoldville; renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC in 1964. The smaller territory of Ruanda-Urundi was a German colony that was occupied by Belgium during World War One; it became a separate mandate territory under the League of Nations from 1922 then the independent nations of Rwanda and Burundi in 1962. Fair condition, restored creasing, restored folds, restored tears, staining foxing on the bottom, backed on linen.