Has anyone read this? I think it's one of the best works

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>>2106262
There's a lot of stuff to write about, most of it poetically tragic

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>we wuz beljuns

Funny, I am reading Why Nations Fail, Congo keeps coming up. I had no idea how bad this country was. Thank baby Jesus I was born in good ol USA

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>>2106275
>>2106262
what if he had lived?

>>2106289
There's not a chance he could have desu

>>2106288

Why Nations Fail, King Leopold's Ghost, and Congo: the Epic History

Is this the Congo history kino trinity?

>>2106289
He probably would have become a tin-pot dictator like everyone else - he demonstrated demagogic tendencies when he was in office anyway.

>>2106327
you could add Heart of Darkness, fiction but quite good since the writer went up the river in the 1890s

>>2106327
I really couldn't go for Why Nations Fail. I thought it was a good theory stretched out 500 pages too long

>>2106343

Yeah, and very much accurate but /lit/ is shit

>>2106607

It BTFO all other analysis, so it sort of has to be. They had a lot of bullshit to destroy

>>2106262
Congo Kinshasa or Congo Brazzaville or Congo river or the Kingdom of Kongo or Kongo Jungle (dk isles)?

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters is an absolute must read for those interested in the Congo.

>>2106327
>Why Nations Fail, King Leopold's Ghost, and Congo: the Epic History
I don't see Africa's World War on that list.

>>2107084
Good intro for sure, but there are better books that go more in depth.