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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 793,919 ratings — published 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 166 times as congo)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,103 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 558,803 ratings — published 1899
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as congo)
avg rating 4.36 — 16,330 ratings — published 2023
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 — 5,610 ratings — published 2010
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,429 ratings — published 2010
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,082 ratings — published 2007
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as congo)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,268 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as congo)
avg rating 3.63 — 178,800 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,034 ratings — published 2005
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as congo)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,885 ratings — published 2023
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as congo)
avg rating 4.09 — 794 ratings — published 2006
Black Moses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,252 ratings — published 2015
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 3.95 — 294 ratings — published 1999
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,456 ratings — published 2017
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,813 ratings — published
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as congo)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,780 ratings — published 1979
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as congo)
avg rating 3.71 — 462 ratings — published 2014
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 127 ratings — published 2002
Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,157 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 — 435 ratings — published 2007
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,231 ratings — published 2010
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,210 ratings — published 2006
African Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.19 — 1,154 ratings — published 2003
The Death of Comrade President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 594 ratings — published 2018
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.02 — 425 ratings — published 2012
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,615 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 — 2,294 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 — 2,034 ratings — published 2010
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,524 ratings — published 2009
The Mission Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,319 ratings — published 2006
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 11 times as congo)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,107 ratings — published 1930
Little Boys Come from the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 3.91 — 259 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 4.13 — 136 ratings — published
La vie et demie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.54 — 237 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 881 ratings — published 1997
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 3.92 — 441 ratings — published 2002
Shut Up You're Pretty (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,294 ratings — published 2019
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.69 — 295 ratings — published 2013
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.30 — 228 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
Congo, My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.14 — 42 ratings — published 1961
The Crime of the Congo (Nook)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.84 — 190 ratings — published 1909
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
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 — 4,001 ratings — published 2012
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 498 ratings — published 1994
“Hochschild just can’t seem to get over the fact that life was very, very different long ago. I, for one, am less ready to leap to condemnation for the petty abuses of the EIC, especially against people who are no longer alive to defend themselves. If he wants to join the Congo Reform Movement, so be it. It has been going on for over 100 years and is not likely to stop. When I call this white guilt porn, I do not intend it as polemic, but merely description.”
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“Hochschild insists on calling the EIC an example of “colonialism”, stretching the term beyond its meaning. European colonies were governed by and accountable to the institutions of a liberal state at home. That was the fundamental structural fact of a European colony, meaning the characteristic that explains its behavior. This fundamental fact was absent from the EIC. This explains its evolution and eventual takeover by Belgium. The EIC was a second-best solution to the absence of colonialism. Hochschild will have none of it because his intention all along was to use his tale as an indictment of European colonialism (“A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, as the subtitle put it). A fevered ideological agenda does not collapse a valid conceptual distinction.”
― 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
