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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 793,231 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 — 68,946 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 558,185 ratings — published 1899
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as congo)
avg rating 4.36 — 16,213 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 — 5,603 ratings — published 2010
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,412 ratings — published 2010
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,067 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 — 3,267 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as congo)
avg rating 3.63 — 178,708 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,032 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 — 1,877 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 — 2,250 ratings — published 2015
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 293 ratings — published 1999
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,454 ratings — published 2017
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,812 ratings — published
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as congo)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,765 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 3.93 — 128 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 — 434 ratings — published 2007
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,218 ratings — published 2010
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,208 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 — 595 ratings — published 2018
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 423 ratings — published 2012
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,605 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 — 2,293 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 — 2,035 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 — 7,313 ratings — published 2006
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 11 times as congo)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,097 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 3.53 — 236 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 880 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 — 4,290 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 — 3,995 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 — 497 ratings — published 1994
“As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.”
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
― Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
“Pendant les 25 dernières années, l’idée du Congo a été étroitement liée dans l’imaginaire occidental au livre de 1998 intitulé “Le fantôme du roi Léopold” de l’écrivain américain Adam Hochschild. Ce livre est largement étudié dans les lycées et les universités, et il figure régulièrement en tête des listes des meilleures ventes en matière d’histoire coloniale, africaine et occidentale. Hochschild est devenu une sorte de roi du Congo, ou du moins de son histoire. Le livre est systématiquement cité par les universitaires réputés dans leurs notes de bas de page chaque fois qu’ils veulent affirmer qu’il est “bien connu” et “indiscutable” que des hommes sinistres en Europe ont semé le chaos en Afrique il y a plus d’un siècle. Toute discussion sur le Congo, ou sur le colonialisme européen en général, commence invariablement par la question : “Avez-vous lu Le fantôme du roi Léopold ?”
― 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.
