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Matadi: Congo's Atlantic Gateway: Empire, River, and the Port City

Matadi: Congo's Atlantic Gateway: Empire, River, and the Port City

Van Houte, Cor P. M.

Paperback

Series: Congo Chronicles, Book 9

African History

ISBN13: 9798274543774
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 14 2025
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the edge of the world's second-largest river lies a city that shaped the destiny of Central Africa. Matadi-rugged, strategic, and indispensable-has been the Congo's lifeline to the sea for over a century. This book tells its story like never before.

From Belgian conquest to independence, from Zairian turmoil to 21st-century rebuilding, Matadi's history mirrors the rise, collapse, and reawakening of the Congolese state itself. Drawing on deep research, firsthand experience, and multidisciplinary expertise, Dr. Cor P. M. van Houte weaves a narrative that is as sweeping as it is intimate.

You will discover:

- How the Lower Congo's deadly rapids forced colonial engineers to carve a port into the cliffs.

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