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Congo Tales is a photo series book of Congolese from the Mbomo District acting out their mythologies in the Odzala Kokoua National Park. [1] It was published by Prestel Publishing (a division of Random House) in the United States on November 15, 2018, and in the UK on July 9, 2018 (ISBN 978-3-7913-5789-8).
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo .
Congo: The Epic History of a People (original Dutch title: Congo.Een geschiedenis) is a 639 page non-fiction book by David Van Reybrouck, first published in 2010.It describes the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the prehistory until the present, with the main focus on the period from the Belgian colonisation until the book's release.
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The book, also a general biography of the private life of Leopold, succeeded in increasing public awareness of these crimes in recent decades. [2] The book was refused by nine of the ten U.S. publishing houses to which an outline was submitted, but became an unexpected bestseller and won the prestigious Mark Lynton History Prize for
The Mission Song is a thriller/espionage novel by British writer John le Carré, published in 2006.Set against the background of the chaotic East Congo, the story involves the planning of a Western-backed coup in the province of Kivu, told from the worm's-eye view of the hapless interpreter.
The book was largely received with critical acclaim. In Foreign Affairs Blood River was described by Nicolas van de Walle as "a gripping story and an absorbing look at a country that has been moving backward for half a century." van de Walle concluded praising the book as "a masterful description of a country moving backwards." [2]
Ndongolera Mwangupili (b. 1977), poet and short story writer; George Mwase (c.1885–1962), author of a historical account of the 1915 rebellion, published 1967 (2nd ed. 1970). [30] Anthony Nazombe (1955–2004), poet and academic [22] Innocent Masina Nkhonyo (b. 1987), short story writer and poet