Herbst Library

Maps of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo)

Map of the Belgian Congo (Leopold's Congo)

Map of Belgian Congo from The Penguin Atlas of African History by Colin McEvedy, p. 113. Book contains other maps of the Belgian Congo and provides historical explanations for them.

Information Resources about the Belgian Congo

• Information, including history, about the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the Library of Congress Country Studies.
• Reviews and information about King Leopold's Ghost, story of greed, terror, and herroism in colonial Africa, book by Adam Hochschild (available in Herbst Library 967.5/HOC)
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the-- information from the World Factbook

Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience ed. by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (available in Herbst Library REF/960/APP)

Poisonwood Bible, a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (F/KIN), present the story of a missionary family in the Congo in the 1950s. The story is told from the multiple points of view of the mother and her four daughters.

The New Atlas of African History by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville (available in the Herbst Library REF/911.6/FRE)

The Penguin Atlas of African History by Colin McEvedy (available in the Herbst Library at REF/911.6/McE)

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Created by Carolyn Karis 2 May 2000
Last Updated 4 January 2007