In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French ColonialismThe epic story of the Congo Ocan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo Ocan 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,

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