Title: Brilliant and Desperately Needed
Product review: While Hochschild does an excellent job shining a light on the happenings in the Congo from its initial colonial conquest until the downfall of its imperial master (the eponymous Leopold) perhaps his greater contribution is to remind us how little of actual history we are taught in our classes in school.Nearly everyone of my friends who read this book was shocked and saddened and not a little astounded as to how this colossal genocide has been erased from our collective memory. The book is best seen as an exhortation to scholars and historians in general to delve deeper into those obscure lacunae of history and tell us more about what really happened on the path here
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