This historic Belgian Congo postcard shows the Post Office at Boma in 1923.
Note the official wearing a tie (even in the Tropical heat) and the uniformed natives (according to our Nelson’s Encyclopaedia, about a decade earlier the colony possessed a native force from 17,000 to 18,000 infantry, under European offices, mostly Belgians).
The local government was centred at Boma under a Governor General.
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