Congo

An epic history of one of the world's most devastated countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ranges from the slave trade and ivory boom to Belgian colonisation, Mobutu's brutal rule and the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and is still going on today.

David Van Reybrouck is an award-winning author, acclaimed playwright, reporter, and poet who studied in Leuven and Cambridge and holds a doctorate from Leiden University. He has travelled extensively throughout Africa and has been actively involved in organizing literary workshops for Congolese playwrights in Kinshasa and Goma. He lives in Brussels.