David Van Rebrouck chronicles Congo’s tortured history and the colonial masters who plundered it. ... ‘Congo: The Epic History of a People’ by David Van Reybrouck. April 4, 2014.

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 ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the richest countries in natural resources—yet one of the poorest in human development. How did a land with such vast potential end up with such a tragic ...

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Leopold’s private colony is another part of Congo’s amazing history that I had started researching from London ahead of filming. At the time I had made a call to an eminent academic and Congo ...

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 ...