August 09, 2008
Tracking Congo’s misery
Posted by: Thinker : Category: News
I was panting in Congo’s equatorial heat, but I saw something that gave me goose bumps. A picture hung on the wall of a timeworn colonial-era house. It showed three stylized African figures, stooped over paddles as they canoed toward a river bank. The picture was all too familiar. During my stolid childhood in the British Midlands of the 1970s, my mother would light up gray days with stories of her African travels, illustrated by props including souvenir drawings she had bought in what is now Kalemie, the hollowed-out ruin of a town on the shores of Lake Tanganyika where I now stood. The stark contrast between my mother’s genteel stories and the ghastly reality of today’s Congo was chilling….
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