I cannot honestly say that I enjoy neither this reading nor this book. I find it difficult to read someone’s difficult past or the difficult past of my ancestors with very much enthusiasm. I don’t like reading about it. It depresses me and never helps me plan the future. I was told that to understand the future we must study the past but I feel that this reading is doing nothing but making the present worse. Although some of the detail was fairly irrelevant to the point of the book as a whole the rest was detailed to the point where I’d rather skip to other parts of the book. I had a hard time pointing out exactly were this book was going and I was not sure if I really wanted to. The general aspect of this book pushed me away from it.
Two Discussion Questions:
If the communication issue between the Africans and the Portuguese was solved would the result be the same?
Why are Stanley’s issues just as important to study as the African issues? Or are they?
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