King Leopold's Ghost I
Posted in Books on Aug 16th, 2009
I’m about 50 pages into King Leopold’s Ghost and it’s already rote with great quotes.
Congolese perceptions of slave traders
“The whites were thought to turn their captives’ flesh into salt meat, their brains into cheese, and their blood into the red wine that Europeans drank”
The Congo River
“So great is the drop and the volume of water [...]
