Joseph Conrad’s 1902 classic novel Heart of Darkness chronicled the folly of Western ivory traders pillaging a shadowy, indomitable river basin. More than a century later the Congo’s place in ...
The Congo River was crucial to early European exploration in the late 15th century and inspired literary works like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Today, it plays a big role in Africa’s ...
Based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow, captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo in search of a mysterious figure named Kurtz who has carved out a brutal kingdom in which he has power of life ...