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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Edgerton, Robert. The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo. St. Martin's, 2002. An introduction to the country's tragic past.

Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Sometimes grim chronicle of Leopold II's reign of terror in the Belgian Congo and the beginning of the century's first major human-rights campaign.

Jenike, David, and Mark Jenike. A Walk Through a Rain Forest: Life in the Ituri Forest of Zaire. Franklin Watts, 1995. Portrait of the Ituri Forest's indigenous people and extraordinary plant and animal life. For younger readers.

Joris, Lieve. Trans. Stacey Knecht. Back to the Congo. Simon & Schuster, 1992. Flemish journalist's travels and observations.

Lemarchand, René. Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo. University of California Press, Reprint, Greenwood, 1964. 1982. Effects of inexperience and foreign administration on a new country.

Nzongola-Ntalaja, ed. The Crisis in Zaire: Myths and Realities. Africa World, 1988. Essays on the country after independence.

Winternitz, Helen. East Along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire. Atlantic Monthly, 1987. Lush nature, poor people, and corrupt politics.

For younger readers

Congo … in Pictures. Lerner, 1999. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Heale, Jay. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marshall Cavendish, 1999. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Willis, Terri. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scholastic, , 2004. For readers in grades 5 to 9.

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