Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

“I am reckoned a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for them under such trying circumstances, and insults to my people.” - Ned Kelly

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  • Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District (Abir Concession) is a photograph published by Edmund Dene Morel in his book King Leopold’s Rule in Africa, in 1904.[1] The image depicts a Congolese man named Nsala examining the severed foot and hand of his five-year-old daughter, Boali. The photograph was taken by Alice Seeley Harris,[2] the wife of a missionary, in the village of Baringa on 14 May 1904. It was subsequently employed as a tool in the media campaign against the inhumane situation in the Congo Free State, which was largely characterised by rubber exploitation.

    It is part of the Harris Papers, a collection owned by Anti-Slavery International.[3][4]

    It is an unforgettable image.