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...RIVER CONGO by Peter Forbath; Harper & Row; 416 pages...
Joseph Conrad described the Congo River as "an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea . . . its tail lost in the depths of the land." Peter Forbath shares Conrad's feeling for this mighty, mysterious river, which rises in southeastern Central Africa, more than 1,000 miles south of the equator and about a mile above sea level, and ends 3,000 miles later in the Atlantic Ocean. Forbath first saw the river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central...
Later explorers were not so easily deterred. Mungo Park, the intrepid Scotsman who navigated the Niger, explored much of the area early in the 19th century without realizing that the Niger and Congo rivers were not one and the same...
...black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes up one morning after a good dream and gives a million dollars. We don't want charity." The black hope for a peaceful solution has drastically diminished, but it has not disappeared. Says another black journalist: "There is not going to be a Congo here. Most black people would gladly move ahead and forget the past...
Leaving aside Coster's more brilliant moments on "Reach Up" and a couple of other songs, Festival is most assuredly a Carlos Santana record. Areas and congo drummer Raul Rekow supply some noteworthy percussion work on "Try a Little Harder," but otherwise maintain a very low profile. Bassist Pablo Tellez and drummer Gaylord Birch (the token non-Hispanic) fully realize their functions in the band to be confined to sustaining the basic rhythms of each song, and their self-effacing performances reflect that awareness...