Congo


The Poisonwood Bible
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Heart of Darkness
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Congo: een geschiedenis
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Congo
Broken Glass
Tram 83
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Black Moses
The Assassination of Lumumba
Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 55 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildNo Mercy by Redmond O'HanlonPeaceland by Severine Autesserre
Central Africa
113 books — 70 voters

Prey by Michael CrichtonMicro by Michael CrichtonJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Lost World by Michael CrichtonThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton Reading List
35 books — 3 voters
The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
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Tim Butcher
In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.
Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

Leopold II
My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries of the Congo are pressing for immediate annexation. These persons no doubt hope that a change of regime would sabotage the work now in progress and would enable them to reap some rich booty.
Leopold II

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