David van Reybrouck
Kongo
Like many Belgians of his generation, David Van Reybrouck knew Congo from stories of the old days: his own father worked there in the 1960s. However, he only came to understand how the history of that country really worked as he carried out his research for this monumental book about the former colony in the heart of Africa. He focused on the lives of its inhabitants, interviewing over 500 people. The result is an amalgam of testimonies that presents a new picture of how the people of Congo suffered so much and yet remained unchanged.
