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“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

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic…

— Lynn Nottage

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic…

— David Suzuki

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status…

— Paul Singer

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

In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own…

— Anjan Sundaram

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

— Cynthia McKinney

I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and…

— Wadah Khanfar

“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

“In little more than a generation, the Belgian king’s yearning for empire and fortune may have killed ten million people in the territory—half of…

— Howard W. French

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric…

— Nicholas D. Kristof