Congo Kitabu Author:Jean-Pierre Hallet Congo Kitabu by Jean-Pierre Hallet, agronomist and sociologist for the Belgian Colonial Government, is an autobiographical account of twelve adventure-filled years living, working and traveling through central Africa from 1948 through 1960. In it he documents interactions with multiple isolated cultures throughout the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi r... more »egions. His accounts provide a unique anthropological source of information of the Congo basin during that period.
The author's extraordinary adventures include living with Bambuti pygmies, taming wild animals, being initiated into a native secret society, losing a hand, killing a lion one-handed with a spear and a leopard by hand, and assembling the world's finest collection of African artifacts, which was acquired by UCLA in 1963.« less