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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as congo)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,313 ratings — published 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 186 times as congo)
avg rating 4.20 — 74,069 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,897 ratings — published 1899
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as congo)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,725 ratings — published 2023
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as congo)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,805 ratings — published 2010
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,988 ratings — published 2010
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,352 ratings — published 2007
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as congo)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,339 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as congo)
avg rating 3.64 — 181,868 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,113 ratings — published 2005
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as congo)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,246 ratings — published 2023
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as congo)
avg rating 4.10 — 814 ratings — published 2006
Black Moses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as congo)
avg rating 3.42 — 2,356 ratings — published 2015
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as congo)
avg rating 3.97 — 317 ratings — published 1999
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 132 ratings — published 2002
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,746 ratings — published 2017
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,280 ratings — published 1979
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,828 ratings — published
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as congo)
avg rating 3.72 — 507 ratings — published 2014
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 3.48 — 969 ratings — published 2013
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,268 ratings — published 2006
Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,200 ratings — published 2012
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 3.69 — 451 ratings — published 2007
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,780 ratings — published 2010
The Death of Comrade President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 633 ratings — published 2018
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 439 ratings — published 2012
African Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.17 — 1,261 ratings — published 2003
The Mission Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,571 ratings — published 2006
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.74 — 618 ratings — published 1994
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,997 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 — 2,316 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 — 2,049 ratings — published 2010
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,543 ratings — published 2009
Congo, My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 4.14 — 44 ratings — published 1961
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,613 ratings — published 1930
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 4.07 — 157 ratings — published
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.91 — 55 ratings — published 2005
La vie et demie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.53 — 255 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 895 ratings — published 1997
Little Boys Come from the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.87 — 269 ratings — published 1998
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.38 — 58 ratings — published 2007
Johnny Mad Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.90 — 466 ratings — published 2002
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,036 ratings — published 2000
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.67 — 303 ratings — published 2013
Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.37 — 233 ratings — published 2016
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.32 — 248 ratings — published 2010
Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.42 — 100 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 — 43 ratings — published 1972
“As I wrote, despite the malicious craft practiced by Hochschild and others, I am glad that an extensive documentary record of the EIC and of European colonies more generally survives, not that I expect any honest use of them in our current moral panic. Hochschild was merely an early entry into a genre that has since blossomed into an industry of scholars who “interrogate” the archives to cough up evidence of the evils of the West. There is of course no such documentary record of the horrific conditions the Europeans replaced, and in any case most Western readers would not buy a book on endemic venereal disease in Africa or stool disputes among the Kuba. A salacious tale on the Belgian king and his mistresses torturing black people to pay for their follies? Now you’re talking!”
― 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
“Hochschild is correct that the demographer Léon de St. Moulin assayed the 50 percent decline possibility (in 1987 and 1990 works). But Hochschild fails to mention that Moulin, like the later Vansina, believed that the EIC and rubber had nothing to do with it. The causes for Moulin were, in order, sleeping sickness, smallpox, Spanish flu, and venereal diseases. Moulin did not even mention the EIC or rubber in his 1990 chapter. Like the later Vansina, he recognized that these were footnotes in the demographic history of the Congo.”
― 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
