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Brazza, A Life for Africa
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by Maria Petringa
Sales Rank: 1303880
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
Published by: AuthorHouse January 18, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1425911986
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1425911980
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Reader Reviews
This biography of Pierre de Brazza gives us an inspiring portrait of a very good man in a very bad time, the age of European colonialism in Africa. Brazza, who explored and administered French Equatorial Africa at the end of the 19th century, tried desperately to civilize the colonialists' treatment of the African natives. He ultimately failed, though his ideals and efforts are inspiring. His failure shows, however, that the "heart of darkness" was not an aberration, that colonial exploitation of Africa was incurably corrupt and cruel, for the French as for the Belgians. Reading this book dispels any lingering sentimentality for this enterprise, provides the reader with a fascinating portrait of an important though (at least in the English-speaking world) largely forgotten man, and gives us a devastating picture of nineteenth-century imperialism. "Brazza, A Life for Africa" is hard to put down.
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