In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
By: Daughton, J P
ISBN: 9780393541014
The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state.
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