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I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to hear your thoughts on the terrible Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. I read Chasing the Devil a while back and it seemed like you had quite a firm grasp on the history and particular cultures of those countries. Any thoughts?

Tim Butcher The ebola crisis in West Africa is a huge concern. Poor Johnson Boie, the sterling guide who acted as gatekeeper for my understanding of rural Liberia…moreThe ebola crisis in West Africa is a huge concern. Poor Johnson Boie, the sterling guide who acted as gatekeeper for my understanding of rural Liberia when we walked across the country in 2009, texts me daily. I read avidly. He has retreated – on the advice of health experts – back to his home village up in Lofa County, where the outbreak began in Liberia, and is doing everything possible to keep his community safe.
At first my thoughts were of linkage. I came across ebola when I wrote my first book, Blood River, on my journey through the Congo. Ebola was identified there for the first time in 1976, taking its name from a small river called `Ebola’ that runs into the Congo River north of the riverine settlement of Bumba.
I had reported in 2000 on an ebola outbreak in northern Uganda and got to learn the basics of the disease: a filamental virus, harboured by bush animals most likely bats, once it jumps from the animal to human the virus invades cells, replicates like mad and after 21 days of incubation acts like a wrecking ball to blood vessels, smashing capillary walls and causing the patient to bleed out. Blood loss is so bad catastrophic the patient basically dies of dehydration.
But I also learnt two other things. If treated by healthworkers who stay healthy, the patient can survive if kept hydrated. Survival rates if – and it’s a big if – healthworkers stay healthy are much, much higher than the scare stories of the media suggest. I also learnt that all ebola outbreaks recorded have taken place either in the Congo basin or within overland transport links of the basin.
So my first big thought was: how did it jump 2,000 miles north and west to Guinea, where it first appeared before spreading to Sierra Leone and Liberia? Scientists are debating how this might have happened but there is no clear answer yet.
As the crisis grew bigger, my next thoughts were about another unique feature of this new outbreak: it has reached urban populations. This has never happened before and this makes it so much more important from a global perspective.
We know HIV only became globally pathogenic because it spread to a large urban area ( the Congo, again I am afraid to say – Kinshasa ) and now the same has happened to ebola. Will ebola go globally pathogenic?
My thoughts then turned to Douglas Adams and his refrain `Don’t Panic’. If we panic and give up on helping the West African communities currently blighted, then it is more likely to become a global problem. I recalibrated the refrain to `Don’t Panic Yet’. As long as common sense prevails and good health care arrives, this outbreak will be dealt with and it will not spill globally. But this means the world will have to get involved, because of my next thoughts.
There were about how the fantastic people of West Africa, people like Johnson, are so chronically let down by their hopeless, corrupt, ineffective governments. We know ebola is containable using methods that are not that expensive or demanding in expertise, what is known as `barrier nursing’ where healthworkers are protected.
I know Salone and Liberia have first class health practitioners more than capable of dealing with the outbreak. What they don’t have is the gear, resources and equipment. And here, the local governments are to blame. When I passed through Salone in 2009 on the Chasing the Devil trek, there was one working X ray machine in the government sector. There were lots of broken ones but only one working one. And that comes down to stolen budgets, corrupt management and incompetent administration.
Remember more than 200 people died in Freetown, capital of Salone, just a couple of years ago because of cholera, one of the most manageable diseases in the world. Clean water means no cholera and yet that is beyond the abilities of a government in an economy that grew 33 per cent two years ago (yes, 33 per cent real growth in one year, OECD figures).
Then my thoughts turned to Graham Greene. His 1935 journey passed through the exact hot zone for today’s outbreak. All the places named in reports today sounded familiar to me as I passed through them when following his route and it made me re-read his original diary which I have a copy of. The first name he gave the book that would become Journey Without Maps was different. It was `Journey in the Dark’.
It made me think of Joseph Conrad and the literary millstone he hocked Africa with when he chose the title `Heart of Darkness’ for the novel he wrote out of his own experience on the Congo in the 1890s. Was Conrad presciently hinting at a dark health crisis, then morphing and replicating in the African bush into what would become HIV? Was Greene hinting at another health crisis lurking in the jungle that he crossed?
My thoughts keep churning at every turn of this virus-led ebola health crisis.(less)

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Tim - I'm a great admirer of "Blood River", and the lengths to which you went in order to obtain the story. Despite having a vast array of resources, the DRC seems to have remained horribly underdeveloped and locked in a cycle of misery. As such, what do you think is the best way forward for the DRC?

Tim Butcher Dominic – thank you for such a direct and powerful question. Not sure there is a direct and powerful answer but what follows is my best effort. The be…moreDominic – thank you for such a direct and powerful question. Not sure there is a direct and powerful answer but what follows is my best effort. The best way forward for DRC lies in the hands not of outsiders (diplomats, aid workers, UN types, writers) but its own people. While many readers of Blood River ask if I am pessimistic about the future for DRC, I prefer to say I am realistic: the problems are immense but the human capital of the people I know from there is so magnificent that I am sure they have the ability to turn it round.
History tells us that dark places can move towards light, acute problems can be solved. Dickensian London is not a place you or I would like to have lived as a normal person (not middle class, not propertied, not privileged), indeed Britain was, as Marlow tells us in Heart of Darkness `once a dark place’. And yet today, London is not as Dickens describes it, David Cameron’s brutal efforts notwithstanding.
So once the Congolese take the leap forward themselves, I see great grounds for progress. But only when they are good and ready and not before outsiders have stopped kidding themselves of an easy fix.
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The audiobook of Chasing the Devil is now available online once again, links below.

Much thanks to the many GoodReads members who reached out to let me know it had `vanished'. A rights glitch caused a temporary disappearance but that has now been sorted. Apologies for any inconvenience.

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“….So much crueller than any British colony, they say, so much more brutal towards the local Africans, so much more manipulative after begrudgingly granting independence. But the history of British colonialism in Africa, from Sierra Leone to Zimbabwe, Kenya to Botswana and else-where, is not fundamentally different from what Belgium did in the Congo. You can argue about degree, but both systems were predicated on the same assumption: that white outsiders knew best and Africans were to be treated not as partners, but as underlings. What the British did in Kenya to suppress the pro-independence mau-mau uprising in the 1950s, using murder, torture and mass imprisonment, was no more excusable than the mass arrests and political assassinations committed by Belgium when it was trying to cling on to the Congo. And the outside world's tolerance of a dictator in the Congo like Mobutu, whose corruption and venality were overlooked for strategic expedience, was no different from what happened in Zimbabwe, where the dictator Robert Mugabe was allowed to run his country and its people into the ground because Western powers gullibly accepted the way he presented himself as the only leader able to guarantee stability and an end to civil strife. Those sniffy British colonial types might not like to admit it, but the Congo represents the quintessence of the entire continent’s colonial experience. It might be extreme and it might be shocking, but what happened in the Congo is nothing but colonialism in its purest, basest form.”
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“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchildren. I can think of nowhere else on the planet where the same can be true.” p141”
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“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the days of the first European and Arab slavers. The territory that Stanley staked in the name of Leopold witnessed what many regard as the first genocide of the modern era, when millions of Congolese were effectively worked to death trying to meet the colonialists’ almost insatiable demand for resources, most notably rubber. And since independence, foreign powers have toyed with the Congo, stripping its mineral assets and exploiting its strategic position, never mindful of the suffering inﬂicted on its people. And that really was the point. At every stage of its bloody history, outsiders have tended to treat Congolese as somehow sub-human, not worthy of the consideration they would expect for themselves. For progress to be made, outsiders must treat Congolese as equals and they could do worse than follow the example of an amazing white woman I discovered after we got back to Kalemie.”
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“The statesmen leaving the Berlin Congress smugly convinced themselves that the people of Bosnia would benefit from the diplomatic finesse of having the Western Austro-Hungarians replace the Eastern Ottomans. What they had actually done, however, was quite the opposite, sowing seeds of resentment that would eventually destroy the status quo of the entire Western world.”
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“As my history teachers drilled into me, the First World War provided the preconditions for the Second World War and thereby the tension of the Cold War. The war of 1914–18 was Ground Zero for modern history, the end of an old order that had held sway for hundreds of years, the fiery forging of a new world.”
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message 19: by Tim

Nov 06, 2020 01:40AM

Stephen wrote: "Tim - I didn't expect a personal message from you, so it was a treat to receive it! I understand about the problems with including photos - I have personal experience of that when I had to abandon ..."

Hey Stephen - thanks for leaving this message on my profile. Wishing you good health and rich reading in this strangest of times, TimB

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message 18: by Stephen

Nov 06, 2020 01:05AM

Tim - I didn't expect a personal message from you, so it was a treat to receive it! I understand about the problems with including photos - I have personal experience of that when I had to abandon the idea myself when I recently self-published my own travelogue. No matter, the photos on your website are excellent.
What I wish I had expressed in my review, now that I know you actually read them which is refreshing in itself, is my admiration for you undertaking the journey at all - with or without helicopters!
I'm trying to expand my knowledge of travel writing from Daniel Defoe to Paul Theroux, and I'm pleased indeed to have discovered yours. Your vast experience in journalism, especially in challenging locations, really shows! I shall now move on to Trigger and look forward to it very much. Best wishes, Stephen

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Oct 28, 2020 03:03AM

Cheers for the feedback James. Wishing you good health and rich reading, TimB

James wrote: "Hi Tim,

Thanks for the message and above all a good thought provoking read. Look forward to reading your other books, and good luck in lockdown.

James"

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Oct 28, 2020 02:40AM

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the message and above all a good thought provoking read. Look forward to reading your other books, and good luck in lockdown.

James

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message 15: by Ryan Cole

Jun 29, 2018 01:08PM

Funny you should reach out today. I actually just got home from picking up a copy of The Trigger.

All the best.
-Ryan

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Thanks for letting me know. Delighted to make it onto that list. Cheers Alison, TimB

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message 12: by Tom

Jan 12, 2016 03:55AM

Thanks for the message. I had had your book on my "to-read" list for such a long time, I'm really happy I finally did. I'm planning on reading "Chasing the Devil" soon. It looks great.

I didn't spend much time in Liberia, I was only there for a week at the start of the Ebola crisis to visit my dad. Because of the Ebola risk I couldn't really leave Monrovia, but I was happy to get to see a country that you don't normally here much about. Best wishes in your future writing!

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message 11: by Jan

Jun 22, 2015 05:37PM

Hi, Tim,
I'm glad you liked my review of Blood River. I came to Africa through studying its art. I took an African Art History class in graduate school. I wrote a paper on the memory board of the Luba people, the lukasa. They use the board as a memory aid. The beads on it represent different events, people, etc. depending on the story they are telling. My focus at the time was on the culture, not so much the history. I think the Luba were living in the East Congo maybe a little more to the south than where you started your trek/ordeal. Had you heard of them? I did a quick search online and it seems they're not around anymore.(?)
I'm looking forward to reading your other books: the Trigger and Chasing the Devil!

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message 10: by Michael

Jun 11, 2013 04:51PM

Hi Tim, I thought about your great book, Blood River, the other night watching Anthony Bourdain on CNN with his Congo segment of "Parts Unknown" - the tension he felt being there, a decades-long dream fulfilled, was palpable in the film. I now have a copy of Chasing the Devil and look forward to reading it along with Paul Theroux's latest, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari. Hope all is well with you!

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message 9: by Jim

Dec 18, 2012 02:08PM

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your message, that's really thoughtful. Loved Blood River, fascinating read.

Jim

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message 8: by Shovelmonkey1

Sep 13, 2012 02:18PM

Hi Tim, accepted your friend request. .. welcome to goodreads! I enjoyed Blood River very much and passed my copy on to a friend who also gave it the thumbs up. I'd love to travel in Africa and one of my ambitions is to take part in the Dakar rally.

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message 7: by Susan

Sep 12, 2012 02:11PM

Hi Tim,
Thanks for the friend request ... and also for your book! I loved it - looks like I'll be moving on to Chasing the Devil next;-)

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message 6: by Nadia

Aug 27, 2012 08:41PM

Hey I read your book a wee a couple of months back now, and was enthralled by the idea of a trip up the Congo... other than war, rampage and pillage it's unfortunately a country that gets zero coverage, so was certainly a very interesting read!

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message 5: by Mathilda

Aug 26, 2012 11:28AM

I read Blood River twice, thinking that i rated it to high the first time, a year later I read it again and wondered why I doubted my first rating....because of the rarity of this genre of books I try to get hold of everything available but without a doubt I will read Blood River again in the future!
ps. Also enjoyed Chasing the Devil and it is waiting for me to be re-read...

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message 4: by Beth

Aug 21, 2012 07:23AM

Read it twice Tim....loved the power of it.

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message 3: by Barnyard

Aug 09, 2012 10:00AM

Thank you. I love a good African account. I am working on my own adventure personal story. Some of it can be found at www.MattoleFreeState.webs.com Thank you so much.

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message 2: by Marieke

May 25, 2012 03:47PM

Hi--I definitely enjoyed Blood River and am looking forward to reading Chasing the Devil. Am I crazy or did Anthony Bourdain meet up with you in Liberia when you were working on that book?

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message 1: by Brian

Mar 25, 2012 02:12PM

a friend who served as a peace corps teacher in liberia recently recommended "chasing the devil".

it's a literate, superb book and a terrific read
and opens the door to a whole new spectrum of
literature on that area, including Greene's original
1935 book (at my library) and tim's "blood river".

i've read a lot of first person travel accounts.
devil tops the list. --brian wiersema

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