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Tintin Au Congo = Tintin in the Congo
Tintin Au Congo = Tintin in the Congo | Herge
4 posts | 13 read | 3 to read
Tintin and Haddock have travelled to the Congo in order to go on safari. But have will they have more than just big game to contend with?
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Almost at the border to Congo. Two tourists and a guide was killed by terrorists and there‘s pretty much no one around, except security forces. Super weird things happening. Rebels trying to overthrow the government. The rebels recite students. One got caught, and he‘s in a torture chamber now, never to be seen.

Bookwormjillk I hope this happened in the book not on your trip! 12mo
Tove_Reads @Bookwormjillk Nope, live from Uganda, today! 12mo
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LibrarianRyan
Tintin in the Congo | Herge, Michael Turner
Panpan

This book is racist. There‘s no other way to say it. Tintin has been an enduring loved comic book character for decades.These adventures brought the bumbling detective to life and made them a part of our lexicon. But sometimes classic characters in fall to the changing of time. The illustrations are in typical black face. Not drawing a black person is a black person but drawing them as a monkey painted black as you would see in old vaudeville acts

LibrarianRyan Completely inappropriate. Then add the language barriers, and how none of these black characters speak proper English. It‘s all broken or comical, or made to show more differences then should be relevant. Then add the white saviorism. Tintin has gone to the Congo to write about his adventures with the great apes and acts like an unneeded hero. Whether it‘s fighting lions, riding crocodiles, or saving a group from a different man, Tintin wants to b 2y
LibrarianRyan be the hero. I know this book is a product of its time, but this is not one a library should have on their shelves, unless the library specifically keeps collections of old children‘s books for purposes of study. Tintin can do better. This book has been banned. I agree with the ban in this case. There are better books and better characters. 2y
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Afzyaly
Tintin in the Congo | Herge, Michael Turner
Mehso-so

Racist! Animal Abuse. But Funny.

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#Bookcolortag
I got tagged with yellow and orange by @CouronneDhiver so here goes!
I'm currently at my beach place with has the books I had as a kid so this is pretty much my collection of fable books, my tintin books and a few Enid blyton books! Got all nostalgic looking through them and may end up reading some tintin today!

Oops forgot to tag - I'll choose blue and @sisilia and @Mrs.AntonacciReads since they are my newest followers! ☺

CouronneDhiver Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉 Beautiful... thanks for sharing - my favourite colours! 7y
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