Resource List for the Democratic Republic of Congo

Resource List for the Democratic Republic of Congo

by | published on Oct 10, 2014

List of resources for DRC advocacy

VBS curriculum: http://www.indianadisciples.org/congoconnection.php

Report by Human Rights Watch on the Political Space in the DRC: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/drc1108web.pdf

Report by Global Witness: http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/154/en/digging_in_corruption

Report by Senator Sam Brownback and Senator Richard Durbin: http://brownback.senate.gov/OriginalDocs/brownbackdurbintripreport.pdf

Report by Amnesty International on Torture and Killing by the State Security Agents: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR62/012/2007/en/45cad2e8-d374-11dd-a329-2f46302a8cc6/afr620122007en.pdf

Children’s Issues: http://www.drcongochildren.org/

Women’s Issues: http://www.sciaf.org.uk/policy/ending_mass_rape_in_the_dr_congo and http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2009/congo/index.html

Films/Movies:

  • The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. A film by Lisa F. Jackson
  • HBO documentary:  The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
  • Lumo, PBS documentary – this movie can be obtained by visiting http://www.gomafilmproject.org/
  • Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death. Directed by Peter Bates (this movie can be obtained by visiting http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4748355130635434378)
  • Arms, Dealing and National Interest. A documentary by D. Andre and P. Moreira
  • Lumumba, 2000. Directed by Raoul Peck
  • Mobutu: King of Zaire. 2004. Movie by Raymond Barre
  • Street Children of Kinshasa. A documentary done by DR Congo Children organization

Reading List:

  • The Assasination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte 
  • The Challenge of the Congo by Kwame Nkrumah
  • Rise and Fall of Patrice Lumumba by Thomas Kanza               
  • King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver   
  • The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • George Washington Williams: A Biography by John Hope Franklin                                                        
  • King Leopold’s Soliloquy by Mark Twain
  • The Congo Cables:The Cold War in Africa–From Eisenhower to Kennedy by Madeleine Kalb
  • The Congo: From Leopld to Kabila: A people’s history by George Nzongola-Ntalaja
  • Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 by Wayne Madsen
  • Africa’s World War:  Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier

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