This book will tear your heart out.  It’s extremely well-written and extremely difficult to read.  The bad guy basically gets away with it. The human rights activists/heroes are indeed noble, but most suffer greatly for their cause. It’s a terrible story, and it’s made more terrible by the fact that most people don’t know it even happened.  In addition to, I think, the general lack of knowledge about Africa in the West, the efforts to forget Belgium’s atrocious history have been remarkable, effective, and ongoing.  You can’t help but wonder how […]