Congo
May 15, 2008
- Anyone who wants to understand the Congo should read two books, King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild and and Michela Wrong's In The Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz. Together, they explain why the last 100 years of bloody tyranny has laid the groundwork for possibly 100 more.I would also heartily recommend both books to anyone studying Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which is too seldom seen as an historic ...
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April 3, 2008
- I don’t normally cross-post to my various blogs, but this entry is of such importance it needs to be read by the widest possible audience One of the themes of Heart of Diamonds is the effect of rape on the women of the Congo, but my fiction is only a shadow of the outrageous reality. To see the real story, watch Lisa Jackson’s horrific yet uplifting documentary, The Greatest Silence: Rape in ...
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