Radical Reads - The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila - Week 4

Radical reads is a reading initiative designed to help us engage with writing that will strengthen political literacy and increase democratic participation.

We consider our selves an intermittent book club, that will run for 6 weeks at a time, allowing us to introduce our audiences to authors and literature on a range of topics.

Over 6 weeks, we will be hosting online meetings to check-in learn more and stay-up-to-date with any new developments.

Our book focus is "The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A people's history". This book is available as a free PDF. We'll be reading chapters 5 & 6 (pages 141-213) in time for our meeting. 

We will also be consolidating this with information from "Amnesty Report: This is What We Die For" - a free PDF. We'll be reading pages 40-45 in time for our meeting.

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Education is the first step to being an informed member of the political sphere and enforcing change. Join us on this journey to a more enlightened world.

We can't wait to connect with you all!

Terms:

• Please  do not share the online meeting link with anyone, all attendees should register
• Please do not record the space
• Respect each other
• Remember that everyone will have different levels of understanding
• Take what is said in good faith
• Be open to sincere correction and redirection
• While we encourage people to share all that they learn and discuss in the group, please refrain from speaking negatively about others you share the space with
• We are an educational platform who view literature through a political lens for the sake of increasing democratic engagement. We are in no way trying to persuade our members into any singular way of thinking