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When the author returned to the Congo for a year as a newly
qualified medical doctor he was able to observe Christian
missionary activity at first hand and, more importantly, to work
and learn from the people amongst whom he had been born, and who he
came to appreciate and admire. The stimulus for this book sprang
from a desire to learn more about the country and the people of
Congo before the intrusion of Europeans, the effects of Belgian
colonization, the role of missionaries in exposing the brutalities
of King Leopold II's rubber industry, and the contribution of
Christian missions to the development of the country that is now
the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mission. Impossible? is based on
a detailed study of the archived records of the Congo Balolo
Mission, personal interviews with retired missionaries and
missionary children, current leaders of the Congolese church and
other previously unpublished personal material. Following the
"discovery" of the Congo River by Henry Morton Stanley in 1877 the
Congo was presented to the wider world as "The Heart of Darkness",
a concept challenged by the author in the final chapter. A
postscript by Norbert Mpu-Mbutu adds an important Congolese
perspective.
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