A review by uhambe_nami
Congo. Een geschiedenis by David Van Reybrouck

2.0

If you are looking for an honest account of what happened in Congo Free State under the rule of king Leopold II, read [a:Adam Hochschild|15402|Adam Hochschild|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1272979974p2/15402.jpg]'s book instead, read Conan Doyle's [b:The Crime of the Congo|11090584|The Crime of the Congo|Arthur Conan Doyle|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1302688729s/11090584.jpg|1046525], read Twain's [b:King Leopold's Soliloquy|99149|King Leopold's Soliloquy|Mark Twain|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1244474255s/99149.jpg|1979842] with excerpts of the Casement Report. I don't know if Van Reybrouck's version of the history of Congo is deliberately misleading or just naive, but there are many sentences here that made me cringe.