“The film shows the twisted layers of damage from war, twisted until the soldiers believe they must rape to win. Twisted until the viewer becomes engulfed in the twisted message of magic and enemy control and devastation. And you shout at the screen.”
– DeNeen L. Brown, The Washington Post, April 8, 2008

Reading List

 

READING LIST ON THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, FORMERLY ZAIRE
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NONFICTION BOOKS
• 21st Century Complete Guide to Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasha, formerly Zaire - Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, History, DOD, State Dept., White House, CIA Factbook (Two CD-ROM Set) by U.S. Government

• Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu’s Congo/Zaire by William T. Close

• Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Larry Devlin

• E.D. Morel’s History of the Congo Reform Movement by Wm. Roger & Jean Stengers Louis

• Explaining the Failure of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Autocracy And Dissent in an Ambivalent World (African Studies) by Osita George Afoaku

• Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness by Jeffrey Tayler

• Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War by Christian P. Scherrer

• GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONGO: THE PILLAGE OF THE CONGO BASIN. With an introduction by A. Conan Doyle. by E. D. Morel

• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo by Michela Wrong

• Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War by Jimmie Briggs

• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

• Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906 by E. D. Morel

• Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa by Theodore Trefon

• Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo by Nicolas de Torrente

• The African Stakes of the Congo War by John F. Clark

• The Black Man’s Burden: The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I by E. D. Morel

• The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality by Thomas Turner

•The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

• The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper) by Michael Wallace Nest

• The Democratic Republic of Congo: From Peace Rhetoric to Sustainable Political Stability? by Jideofor Adibe

• The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto “Che” Guevara

• The History of Congo: by Ch. Didier Gondola

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham

• The Tragic State of Congo: From Decolonization to Dictatorship by Jeanne M. Haskin

• To Katanga and back,: A UN case history by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

FICTION
• All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo by Bryan Mealer

• Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad

• Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo by Dave Donelson

• The Beggars’ Pursuit by Christian Filostrat

• The Catastrophist: A Novel by Ronan Bennett

• The Devil in the Bush (Dr. Mary Finney Mysteries) by Matthew Head

• The Mission Song: A Novel by John Le Carre

• The New Breed: Brotherhood of War 07 (Brotherhood of War) by W. E. B. Griffin

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver