A review by caseycdelima
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5

I would give this book a 4.5, but mostly because I listened to it as an audiobook and so it was sometimes hard to follow some of the acronyms and names mentioned. Despite this, I believe this is such an important telling of a story that is not well known among the Western world but something we all are complicit in. The people of the Congo are still wrapped in brutal slavery that speeds forward due to green energy and technological advances hailed in wealthy countries. Kara does an excellent job balancing historical facts, statistics, and personal stories of the Congolese artisan miners and I was horrified by this account and am even more interested in learning more about how we can demand change and freedom for the Congolese.
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