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Congo
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I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township, that there were Sangomas and not Kimbanguism… I got used to the fact that my bible was my bible. God was God, that I had that home.
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― In the midst of the womb
― In the midst of the womb
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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 con
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― 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
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