Rise and fall Quote by Adam Hochschild

“Adam Hochschild has enjoyed a long run of success with King Leopold’s Ghost, his distortionary 1998 tale about the État Indépendant du Congo (EIC).…

— Bruce Gilley

“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily.…

— Michela Wrong

“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the…

— Tim Butcher

“Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold’s regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The”

— Adam Hochschild

“a 1959 text for young Congolese soldiers studying to become NCOs in the Force Publique explained that history “reveals how the Belgians, by acts…

— Adam Hochschild

“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.”

— Adam Hochschild

“As for the claims by the Congolese historian Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem (“13 million killed” in 1998, then “5 to 10 million killed” in…

— Bruce Gilley

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

— Charles de Gaulle

When I was doing 'Les Mis,' someone sent me a collection of pencil rubbers.

— Hugh Skinner

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is…

— George Ayittey

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped…

— Adam Hochschild