The Crime of the Congo: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Crime of the Congo, credited to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read in English by Faith Abiola-Ellison. A Conan Doyle brings the skills of thorough analysis in his documenting of the atrocities occurring in the Congo Free State (an area now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo, the area south of the Congo River basin) following the European Berlin Conference 1884-85. Witness testimonies (chapter 8 and 9 in particular) and reportage is explicit in recounting the killing and torture of indigenous inhabitants , first sanctioned under King Leopold II’s private rule (1885- 1908) and (Doyle evidences) with limited change in structures/systems under the Belgian state’s early rule once it had annexed the Congo Free State to become the Belgian Congo (1908-1960). The attitudes and lives of missionaries, traders and corporate representatives are also explored in relation to the Congo Free State. The Crime of the Congo is a non-fiction account by an eminent fiction writer and it serves also as a cautionary tale to humanity. - Summary by Faith Abíọ́lá-Ellison

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Crime of the Congo
• Author credits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 7:24:43

Catalogue topics

• africa
• colonialism
• congo

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 16:55
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 22:39
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 47:04
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 17:39
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 43:39
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 24:42
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 33:33
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 36:29
9. 08 - Chapter 8 Part 1 — 35:32
10. 09 - Chapter 8 Part 2 — 32:08
11. 10 - Chapter 9 — 32:55
12. 11 - Chapter 10 — 16:26
13. 12 - Chapter 11 — 39:24
14. 13 - Chapter 12 — 12:58
15. 14 - Chapter 13 — 13:28
16. 15 - Chapter 14 — 14:22
17. 16 - Appendix — 4:50

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