Congo Tales

by Frederic Hunter

Congo Tales offers six memoirs from a United States Information Service officer’s experiences in Bukavu in the eastern Congo in 1963/1964. His chief Congolese employee, a rascally wheeler-dealer and ladies man, takes him on film shows in outlying communes. In a jungle town he encounters a 20th century Rip Van Winkle. He meets a sophisticated American academic gone gaga over Africa; escorts a New York journalist to see an African king; and against instructions dances off on a game-viewing safari that has dangerous results. A year later, with both the Congo and he himself changed, he returns to a Bukavu still dealing with the aftermath of rebellion.

92 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2013