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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Anglais) Broché – 3 septembre 1999

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million—all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo—too long forgotten—onto the conscience of the West.

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Broché: 400 pages
Editeur : Mariner Books; Édition : Reprint (3 septembre 1999)
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ISBN-13: 978-0618001903
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Mathieu Murray

Horrifying and very interesting.

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I purchased this book to get more knowledge on the circumstances of the death of Hubert LATHAM, aviation pioneer, who died in mysterious conditions in the French Congo, reported as a shooting accident, at the age of 29 in 1912.
For me, it is clear that he was murdered as an unwanted visitor where he should not have been.
Adam HOCHSCHILD gives a significant image of the true reality of what was going on in the area even though he reports events some 20 years earlier than the death of Hubert LATHAM

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An extraordinary book

7 janvier 2014

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The title of course refers to the well-known expression/slogan that was coined to evoke the historical catastrophe that opened the twentieth century and ruined its dawning hopes. The book is extraordinary in the way it precisely stages the various moments of the never-ending nightmare. Highly instructive and blood-curdling!

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Hami

Excellent book - very readable & informative

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Excellent book - very readable & informative. Excellent book - very readable & informative. Excellent book - very readable & informative

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Vanessa F.

Haunting

28 juillet 2015

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The quality of the writing makes it an easy read. This book was obviously very well-researched and gives a proper historical context for the events. However, I found myself having to stop reading at times because of the vivid description of some the atrocities inflicted. This book has been haunting me ever since.

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JM Etienne

fascianting account of a brutal conquest

8 juillet 2012

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Written like a novel, but based on facts, this book described how one man, with his determination only, managed to grab a territory, several times the size of his own homeland. What he did with it was truly appaling. He never set foot in Congo. Worth the reading

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Boyd Hone

the part on Stanley is unbelievable

4 août 2012

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In retelling the life of Stanley, I would like to review two books, Frank McLynn's Stanley and Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost. It was in reading the latter that I discovered the incredible like of Stanley, which led to my ordering the former. Although Hochschild's book is only party about Stanley, it adds important insights that complete McLynn's work. So many things strike one as being incredible in both of these biographies that I hardly know where to start. As a child Stanley was led into an imposing building by his mother who said she would have to enter an adjoining room for a few minutes to take care of some business. She then abandoned her son, leaving him in an English workhouse. Psychologists say that a child's worse nightmare is the fear of being abandoned. I can bear this out personally: at the age of 5 I was `'lost'' in a department story for an hour or so. I can still see myself (my very first memory, one as clearly as day), screaming for all I was worth, until my mother came for me. Stanley (whose name wasn't Stanley then) experienced nightly horrors so terrible that he never was able to react sexually in a normal fashion thereafter--some say he never even consummated (what a word!) his marriage when it finally occurred late in life. He became a sadomasochist, always accompanied by a young boy he could browbeat and humiliate (supposedly nothing more), never caring a damn about who died during his expeditions. He was a liar, lying about everything from his name to where he was born (he insisted he was an American) to when he was born. But then he did incredible feats of exploration that put him squarely in the category of the seafaring Cook, and he found Livingston, supposedly the only man he ever respected.

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John P. Jones III

It has been said before: The Horror!

8 avril 2016

Specifically, Joseph Conrad’s character, Kurtz, in Heart of Darkness said those two words in stereo, at the conclusion to his life. One key passage from Adam Hochschild’s account of the horror that was the colonization of the heart of Africa resonated strongly: “High school teachers and college professors who have discussed this book in thousands of classrooms over the years tend to do so in terms of Freud, Jung, and Nietzsche; of classical myth, Victorian innocence, and original sin; of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism…(but) what is notable is how precise and detailed a description it is of ‘the actual facts of the case’”. Hochschild posits that Kurtz might have been drawn as a composite of a few colonial “administrators,” but he focuses primarily on one: Leon Rom, who reportedly had the severed heads of African natives on the fence posts surrounding his house.

1491. Yes, the year before… and that is when the Portuguese first brought their caravels to the mouth of what would be called the Congo River, deriving its name from the Kingdom of the Kongo, which encompassed it. The attraction? An addiction that is stronger than that to crack cocaine: cheap labor! With the cheapest being “free” labor, that is, slavery. Throughout Hochschild’s marvelous history he searches for African “voices” to describe what the coming of the white man meant to them. He finds one early: Affonso. He was the king of the Kongo for 40 years, at the time of the coming of the Portuguese, adopted one of their names, and did what he could to minimize the damage from the aforementioned addiction, which grafted the white man’s addiction onto existing African slavery practices.

For centuries thereafter, the white Europeans stayed mainly on the African coast, if they stayed at all. It was only in the 1870’s that the interior of the heart of Africa was opened to serious exploration. The biggest barriers to exploration were the falls and rapids along the end of the Congo River. These had to be circumvented – and the method was the use of African porters (conscripted into service) that would literally carry the pieces of entire steamships on their heads.

Hochschild provides some wonderful portraits of those involved in the European (and American, at times) involvement with central Africa. Henry Stanley, of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” fame, was an illegitimate Welshmen of impoverished background who would fight on both sides in the American Civil War, pass himself off as an American, and would be acclaimed at the highest levels of European society, and be of considerable use to Leopold II. George Washington Williams also “embroidered” his background a bit. He was a black American who visited the Congo, in part, because of a white racist Senator from Alabama who wanted to send the Blacks back from where they came. Hochschild says that it was Williams, who was the first who truly saw what was before everyone, and would denounce it: the ruthless brutal exploitation of Africans for the outsider’s financial gain. Others would follow. E.D Morel was one of the most impressive. From England he would, at times almost single-handedly, tirelessly work to expose the crimes occurring in the Congo. One of the most tragic figures was (Sir) Roger Casement, a British Consular official who would also document the crimes there in the 1890’s, and would evolve into an ardent Irish nationalist who would be hanged by the British as a traitor in 1916.

And then there was Leopold himself. Of the very unhappy family life. Three daughters who he estranged. At age 65, he would take up with a 16 year old prostitute, and elevate her to the status of de facto queen, much to the embarrassment of his Belgian “subjects.” Hochschild provides a scathing portrait how this one man, driven by cupidity, and via duplicity, “brilliant” at times, would acquire as his personal property an area many times the size of his native Belgium. And via the slavery that had been outlawed, extract two products of value to Europeans, ivory and rubber, in order to build monuments and palaces in Belgium, and the south of France. The author estimates that 10 million Africans died as a direct result of this enormous crime, and that the world has gone to extraordinary lengths to “forget” these crimes. Indeed, as Hochschild relates, it continued, as the CIA decided to assassinate the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, primarily because he believed that the wealth of the Congo should benefit those who lived there. In the process, Joseph Mobutu, would “rule” the Congo for decades, and continued to extract the wealth out of the Congo by exploiting his fellow Africans.

In this meticulously documented, and properly nuanced account of “the horror” of the exploitation of African natives, there was one jarring non sequitur, which occurred on p. 234: “Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War…” What! What of Jonathan Schell and Neil Sheehan? It was Herr who proclaimed, in his book, Dispatches: Picador Classic that HALF the combat troops in Vietnam carried around the ears of dead Vietnamese as trophies. By far, it was Neil Sheehan, in writing about My Lai, in A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam who got it right: “Calley appears to have been a sadist… What Calley and others who participated in the massacre did that was different was to kill hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese in two hamlets in a single morning and to kill point-blank with rifles, pistols, and machine guns. Had they killed just as many over a larger area and a longer period of time and killed impersonally with bombs, shells, and rockets, white phosphorus and napalm, they would have been following the normal pattern of American military conduct.”

Yes, Virginia, there really is “a horror.” There really were the Kurtz/Rom’s who decorated their fence posts with human heads and there really were American soldiers who acquired ears as trophies. But the emphasis should truly be on the “horror” that is a magnitude greater, and lay in the absent “heart” of Leopold himself, as well as that of the enterprising Dow chemist who discovered the additive that would make napalm stick to the skin. With the significant exception of Hochschild’s opinion of Herr, his account of the crimes in the Congo clearly rates 6-stars.

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