Clean air Quote by Siddharth Kara

“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers…

— Tim Butcher

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

“But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a merchant's hand,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in…

— Anjan Sundaram

“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

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its…

— Paul Kagame

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

— Donald Miller

I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in…

— Anjan Sundaram

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

— Dikembe Mutombo

“If the heart of Africa remained elusive, my search for it had brought me closer to understanding myself and other human beings. The ache…

— Maya Angelou

“Westerners arriving in Africa for the first time are always struck by its beauty and size--even the sky seems higher. And they often find…

— Richard Dowden

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

— Adam Hochschild