“Hochschild’s sweet reason in his letter on the complex question of European colonialism appears to have abandoned him while writing the book… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
If I'd had a magic ejector seat when I went to Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“When, in February 1885, at the Berlin Conference that not a single Congolese attended, the fourteen participating powers, headed by Great Britain,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not… — Michela Wrong Copy Share Image
“Comparing the EIC to the Nazis is grotesque. Hochschild has nothing to say about this odious rhetorical maneuver, an insult not just… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“Hochschild just can’t seem to get over the fact that life was very, very different long ago. I, for one, am less… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
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