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Congo Books
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 802,955 ratings — published 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 172 times as congo)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,232 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 567,441 ratings — published 1899
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as congo)
avg rating 4.35 — 17,948 ratings — published 2023
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,681 ratings — published 2010
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as congo)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,698 ratings — published 2010
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,215 ratings — published 2007
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as congo)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,307 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as congo)
avg rating 3.64 — 180,110 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,065 ratings — published 2005
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as congo)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,025 ratings — published 2023
Black Moses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as congo)
avg rating 3.42 — 2,302 ratings — published 2015
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as congo)
avg rating 4.10 — 803 ratings — published 2006
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 3.97 — 303 ratings — published 1999
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,599 ratings — published 2017
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 128 ratings — published 2002
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,826 ratings — published
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as congo)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,004 ratings — published 1979
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as congo)
avg rating 3.71 — 478 ratings — published 2014
Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,174 ratings — published 2012
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 949 ratings — published 2013
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as congo)
avg rating 3.68 — 438 ratings — published 2007
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,449 ratings — published 2010
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,233 ratings — published 2006
African Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.19 — 1,191 ratings — published 2003
The Death of Comrade President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 612 ratings — published 2018
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 430 ratings — published 2012
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,763 ratings — published 1990
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,310 ratings — published 2010
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,043 ratings — published 2010
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,535 ratings — published 2009
The Mission Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,429 ratings — published 2006
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 11 times as congo)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,336 ratings — published 1930
Congo, My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 4.14 — 42 ratings — published 1961
Little Boys Come from the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 3.88 — 260 ratings — published 1998
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 140 ratings — published
La vie et demie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.54 — 249 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.74 — 887 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Mad Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 452 ratings — published 2002
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.67 — 299 ratings — published 2013
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.32 — 238 ratings — published 2010
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 52 ratings — published 2005
Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.41 — 98 ratings — published 2014
Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.49 — 41 ratings — published 1972
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.38 — 58 ratings — published 2007
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,032 ratings — published 2000
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,089 ratings — published 2012
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,272 ratings — published 2021
“I am glad that Hochschild admits that the photographs in his book are fake. Still, to his point, I do not doubt that the traditional African hippo whip was used by EIC officials. Nor do I doubt that chains were used to confine prisoners in the EIC when prisons were not available. Nor do I doubt that the Arab tradition of chopping off the hands of fallen enemies persisted well into the EIC era, even among natives employed by the government or concession companies. So what? If Hochschild’s argument is that the area should have been colonized from the start (as his hero Edmund Morel argued), I would agree. If his argument is that the EIC should have been financed by liquor imports or village hut taxes rather than the 40 hours per month labor requirement for those who could not pay individual taxes, I will side with the King.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
“I wish that Hochschild would come clean on the litany of other errors I catalogue in my essay: Conrad could not have seen any of the alleged rubber atrocities; Léopold did not burn his archives, and nothing was “locked away from outside view”; Kurtz’s head-strewn compound was not based on a Belgian official but on African warlords; Léon Fiévez’s African troops killed 100 warriors of local tribal chiefs who had reneged on a promise to supply food, not 100 hapless villagers who failed to turn in rubber; the trade surplus of the EIC reflected payments that went for infrastructure, administration, and security, not a slave economy.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
