“ The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the days of the first European and Arab slavers. The territory that Stanley… Tim Butcher
“ ….So much crueller than any British colony, they say, so much more brutal towards the local Africans, so much more manipulative after begrudgingly granting independence. But the history of British col… Tim Butcher
“ Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark. Tim Butcher
“ In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken. Tim Butcher
“ The normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchil… Tim Butcher
“ My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category… Tim Butcher
