Title: well researched and informative, great sense of narrative
Product review: The book is well written, really lets you understand the sequence of events that surrounded both the colonization of the Congo and the efforts of the many people who had worked against the regime. One of the most shocking revelations of the book is that this wasn't an isolated freakish series of events, but that the same kind of horrors were to be found elsewhere in colonial Africa, perhaps to a lesser degree, but that the Congo was simply the most publicized and well-known of them. The fact that it's almost put in as an afterthought is the one flaw of the book, but I don't think it could have the same pacing and sense of narrative if it were a real survey of 19th C colonization in Africa. It's a reminder that we need to be paranoid about people claiming good intentions for reforming a supposedly "backwards" place.
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