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Short title: The Crime of the Congo: Author: Arthur Conan Doyle: Software used: ocrmypdf 11.6.2 / Tesseract OCR-PDF 4.1.1: Conversion program: pikepdf 2.5.2
In the Daily Express the book was praised as "the most powerful indictment yet launched against the Belgian rulers of this bloodstained colony". The Express also noted that "After reviewing the early history of the Congo Free State Sir Arthur quotes the testimony of many unimpeachable witnesses regarding the brutalities of the 'rubber system' and the coldblooded mutilation and massacre of ...
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, privately controlled and owned the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. In 1908, the area was annexed by Belgium as a colony known as the Belgian Congo. Leopold used his personal control to strip the country of vast amounts of wealth, largely in the form of ivory and rubber.
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 .
The novel was published in December 2009 in Zulu and English and later translated to Xhosa for a radio play. 'Tutaishi' is a Swahili word for 'we will survive'. As the title suggests, this is a story of survival which straddles the Congo and South Africa.
The Mwindo epic is an oral tale from the Congo told by the Nyanga people. The origins and creation of the Mwindo epic are mostly unknown since the story is only passed down orally. A version of the story was recorded by Kahombo Mateene and Daniel Biebuyck and published in 1969.
In Getaway, a South African magazine, the reviewer wrote that "Butcher had not only the courage, but the insight to tell a great story of a country struggling to emerge from a history of colonial rule." Butcher was praised for his "great knowledge of the country's history, his ability to convey scenes and characters in crisp prose, and his ...
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.