Then it is a string of sandy islets, each bigger than the last, forming a chain we must pass through. There are thirty degrees of heat on deck and the sun has a yellow-grey bruise around its throbbing eye. More islands rise in small pointed mountains as we come upon a line of junks. It is like se...
The Democratic Republic of Congo covers a million square miles of the heart of Africa, while the Republic of the Congo, otherwise known as Congo-Brazzaville, is a much smaller curl of territory on the north-west side of the river basin. The former was the personal fiefdom of Leopold II, King of t...