Thierry Michel's "Congo River, Beyond Darkness" plunges the viewer into a two-hour trek up the 2,500-mile Congo river from its mouth to its distant source. This exploration of post-colonial Africa ...

Heart of Darkness Redux by Charles R. Larson. ... At a Belgium garrison, named Yangambi, on the Congo River, Captain Philippe Marie Lalande Biran (who considers himself a major poet), ...

Granted, Che was no Mr. Kurtz, the imperialist villain in Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness who wants to bring civilization to the natives in the Congo, but loses faith, exclaims ...

The Congo River is a long, arcing river in West-Central Africa, featuring a rainforest and providing food and transport for 75 million people. ... "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad, ...

THE POISONWOOD BIBLE By Barbara Kingsolver HarperFlamingo, 546 pages, $26 In 1890 Joseph Conrad traveled to the Congo in the employ of a Belgian trading company, under contract as a steamboat pilot… ...