Letters from the Congo
Author: Janet Roberts
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Published: 2007*
Total Pages: 218
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Author: Janet Roberts
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Published: 2007*
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Danielle Legros Georges
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Published: 2017-07-21
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ISBN-13: 9781941604052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLETTERS FROM CONGO, a powerful collection of 13 intimate poems, written as letters, by Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros Georges, that invites readers to journey every air mile traveled by a family trying to survive the perpetual uncertainty of life in exile.
Author: Anna Berg
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Published: 2002*
Total Pages: 99
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Russell E. Baldwin
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Published: 198?
Total Pages: 944
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mia Carter
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 845
ISBN-13: 0822331896
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Author: George Washington Williams
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Published: 1882
Total Pages: 1152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edith Rebecca Millman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-10-26
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781475004090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Mama' Edith Rebecca Millman's letters relate her remarkable 1893 journey into what was then considered Congo's 'Heart of Darkness'. Initially as 'Mama Mangwete' and later as 'Mama Mokili', Edith goes on to record her next forty four years attempting to spread Christian Light in the Congo she comes to love so deeply. Mama was a gifted writer. Her letters to daughters and friends paint a vivid first hand picture of the extraordinary lives of pioneer missionaries in the Congo. The hand written documents were originally collected and chronologically assembled by Edith's second husband, William 'Mokili' Millman. They have been faithfully restored and formatted for publication by Mokili and Mama's granddaughter, Jane Marshall. Jane has now reformatted and republished her original 2009 version of 'Mama: Edith Rebecca Millman Tells in Her Own Words of Her Remarkable 1893 Journey into Congo's 'Heart of Darkness' .......' and republished it with Createspace as 'Mama Edith: Letters from Congo' . Volume 1 of her 'Mission and Tradition in the Congo' Series
Author: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1760785202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author: Michael A. Rutz
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1624666582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage exploitation of the Congo's natural and human resources by international corporations. The resulting 'red rubber' scandal—which laid bare a fundamental contradiction between the European propagation of free labor and 'civilization' and colonial governments' acceptance of violence and coercion for productivity's sake—haunted all imperial powers in Africa. Featuring a clever introduction and judicious collection of documents, Michael Rutz's book neatly captures the drama of one king's quest to build an empire in Central Africa—a quest that began in the name of anti-slavery and free trade and ended in the brutal exploitation of human lives. This volume is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the history of colonial rule in Africa." —Jelmer Vos, University of Glasgow