Like "genius" or "masterpiece", "epic" is a word that has suffered semantic inflation at the hands of over-eager book reviewers. But the Congo is a country that merits the word in all its original ...

A major critical and popular success in Belgium, this sweeping history of Congo begins during the precolonial era and brings readers all the way up to the current era of warlords and civil war. Van ...

David Van Reybrouck’s magnificent Congo: The Epic History of a People, as translated from the Dutch by the award-winning Sam Garrett, is truly an “epic” work.It spans the history of the ...

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Authoritative books in English on the Congo are scarce, so this work by a leading Congolese academic is welcome. After reviewing the colonial period, the turbulent independence era, and Mobutu Sese ...

Williams met Leopold heading to Congo in 1890 to gather material for a book. The book would have to wait. Shocked by what he found, Williams immediately penned an “Open Letter” to Leopold ...

‘Congo: The Epic History of a People’ by David Van Reybrouck. ... Van Reybrouck had no personal experience of Congo until 2003, when he decided to write a book about it.