The Left Berlin has a reading group every week to discuss selected readings on a specific subject. The next Reading Group will be on Friday, 14th March and we will be discussing Congo. Readings will be posted here around a week before the event.

Please note that this month’s reading group will not be in the usual venue

Main reading

• Shola Lawal A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo
• Priscilla Lebesse The Impact of the Belgian Colonization in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Isaac Chotiner The Real Story Behind Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination
• Terry Gross How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy
• Ben Radley Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo

Supplementary reading

• Che Guevara Congo Diary
• Andrée Blouin – My Country, Africa – Autobiography of the Black Passionata
• Kwame Nkrumah Economic pressures in the Congo Republic
• Becca Voelcker Climate, Capital, and Colonialism: A Congolese Perspective

Supplementary viewing

• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Ètat – in German cinemas now