Culture | Blood on the tracks
A grim account of the construction of the Congo-Océan Railway
“In the Forest of No Joy” examines the human cost of a colonial infrastructure project
In the Forest of No Joy. By J.P. Daughton. W.W. Norton; 384 pages; $30
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