Africa Quote by Adam Hochschild

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…

— Adam Hochschild

“The rebel militias, the Congo’s African neighbors, and many of their corporate allies have little interest in ending the country’s Balkanization. They prefer a…

— 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

“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It…

— Adam Hochschild

“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest…

— Adam Hochschild

“On another point: King Leopold’s Ghost reproduces some of the photographs of Congo atrocities that fueled the worldwide protests against Leopold’s rule during the…

— Adam Hochschild

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in…

— John Prendergast

“We were children in struggle, of the sun in crimson soil.”

— Tsholofelo Lehaha

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places…

— Paul Theroux

“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,…

— Katharine Hepburn

“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a moment thought…

— Tim Jeal

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

— Adam Hochschild