Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim

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Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim

by Congo resident

EN·~2 hours·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total
1

BOKWALA

0:08
2

PREFACE

2:09
3

FOREWORD

2:03
4

BOKWALA - CHAPTER I - How We Once Lived

12:27
5

CHAPTER II - I am a Cannibal’s Slave

23:28
6

CHAPTER III - The Coming of Bokakala

9:24
7

CHAPTER IV - The Beginning of Sorrows

7:46
8

CHAPTER V - Oppression, Shame, and Torture

13:49
9

CHAPTER VI - Some Horrors of Our Lot

15:56
10

CHAPTER VII - Back to Slavery

10:46

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Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (124K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: The Religious Tract Society, 1910.

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2022-02-10

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditionsForced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic)Slavery -- Congo (Democratic Republic)HT

About the author

CR

Congo resident

A mysterious early twentieth-century witness, this anonymous writer left behind a rare firsthand account of suffering and survival in the colonial Congo. The voice attached to this work feels immediate, human, and historically important precisely because so little is known about the person behind it.

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