Sue Segar talks to Veronica Cecil about her Congo memoir - but also about the chaotic situation in the DRC today, which Cecil believes is the making of “big business” and “world powers”:
Author Veronica Cecil becomes more and more angry as she watches events unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“I am angry because I think what has happened there and what continues to happen is directly our fault,” she says.
Cecil was in Cape Town to promote her book, Bongo Bongo Bongo, I Don’t Wanna Leave the Congo, a memoir of her life as a young wife and mother in the Belgian Congo during the sixties. The book takes the reader on a journey with Cecil, aged 25, with her husband who took up a position with a large multinational company, and her baby son.
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