Had too much filler information for my taste, felt more like a biography than a history of Congo, which maybe I should have expected from the title. Very little of the book was dedicated to the Congo and its suffering under King Leopold's rule, instead we spent a lot of time talking about King Leopold and other important figures of the time and their backstories in an attempt to psychoanalyze them. Found it hard to follow as we jumped from figure to figure. I also felt it lacked an African/Congolese perspective which made it feel very white-centric and almost white savior-ish at times. The writing itself was incredibly dry and sprinkled with too many of the author's personal opinions.

The bits which did talk about Congo were informative and harrowing.

Groundbreaking for its time but I don't think it holds up well as a history of Congo.