In the Belly of the Congo

By: Ndala, Blaise

April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World's Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a "Congolese village" in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven members of this "human zoo" assembled to put on a show at the foot of the Atomium is the young Tshala, daughter of the intractable king of the Bakuba. From her native Kasai to Brussels via L opoldville, the princess's journey unfolds--until her forced exhibition at Expo 58, where we lose track of her.

Summer 2004. Newly arrived in Belgium, a niece of the missing princess crosses paths with a man haunted by the ghost of his father--Francis Dumont, professor of law at the Free University of Brussels. A breathtaking series of events will reveal to them a secret the former subcommissioner of Expo 58 carried to his grave.

From one century to the next, In the Belly of the Congo confronts History with a capital "H" to pose the central question of the colonial equation: Can the past pass?

• Format: MP3 CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CHV2XJ2Y
• ISBN13: 9798212411943
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Length: 1 Pages