All these notions (and many more) came to mind while reading Tim Butcher’s brilliant, but desperately sad account of his 2004 trip across the Congo, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken ...

An individual who had canoed part of the Congo River decades before described Butcher’s plan as a “death wish.” So while he had “never been so terrified” when he first visited the DRC in ...

Popular Congo tomes include Through the Dark Continent, Stanley’s 1877 account of his trip down the Congo River, ... But these books all focus on the early colonial period.

Hochschild’s book is a history of the private domain of the Belgian King Léopold II in the Congo river basin that was founded in 1885 and then handed over to the Belgian government in 1908.

LEOPOLD THE UNLOVED—Ludwig Bauer —Little, Brown ($3.50). To readers now over 50, the name of Leopold II of Belgium on the cover of a book will connote one thing—the Congo atrocities. They ...

Ariño, now 95, defends legal hunting in Africa in his books and recounts how he once shot a record 20 animals in just 75 ...

In the 1880s, as Europe was scrambling for colonies in Africa, one major player, Belgium’s King Leopold II, claimed the Congo River basin as his own possession. and receive a Canada Proud ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ...

On August 5, 1964, Simba rebels seized the city of Stanleyville, a sprawling colonial jewel perched on the Congo River. Seeking power and revenge for the Western-backed assassination of Patrice ...