Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History Trueman Edmund
Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History Trueman Edmund TheDemocratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by…
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Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History Trueman Edmund
TheDemocratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian rule.In this comprehensive graphic history, author and illustratorEdmund Trueman explores the fractious story of Congo. In each of these cases, the Congolese people paid a great price, and until now that price has been paid silently - their story has rarely been told outside of their own country.Colonial exploitation began in in 1885, when Belgium's King The country has played a crucial role in the economic growth of the Global North, but has suffered immensely in doing so.From rubber, to copper, to uranium, to coltan, so many seminal advances in technology have only been made possible through the extraction of materials from Congo.