Quotes Tagged With :congo

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly....

I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's....

the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest....

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will....

He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo,....

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away....

Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats,....

And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates....

My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure....

In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.