Working Grant - Heart of darkness revisited

Marc Hoogsteyns paddled down the Lukenie River, from Lodja to Kinshasa, trough the deep interior of Congo. A daring trip of more than 1500 kilometres. During this trip he met cannibals and he crossed areas in which no white people had been for more than 30 years. In fact the outside world seems to have forgotten that in this deep interior millions of Congolese are living a very poor and miserable life and that nothing is done to help them.

More then a hundred years after the publication of Joseph Conrads’ book ’The Heart of Darkness”. Marc Hoogsteyns checks if the situation in Congo has changed. Despite all the trouble the author remarks that there is still hope for this country.

File number: 

2009/745

4.000 euro granted on 07/09/2009.

 

Authors

Marc Hoogsteyns

Marc Hoogsteyns (49) is one of the last Belgian adventurer-journalists. He worked and lived more than 20 years abroad as a war correspondent for several news agencies. He covered Latin America, South East Asia and Africa. But it is in Africa that he lost his heart.