Mto Kongo una urefu gani?
Kongo (mto)
1837: Silence– A Fable is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe,  written in 1837.   "The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire."
1878: Henry Morton Stanley documented his journey down the Congo River in Through the Dark Continent, first published in 1878.. Open Library. Retrieved on 2011-11-29.
1899: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a short novel   about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa.  The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land".
1914: American poet Vachel Lindsay portrays a dark and savage society around the Congo River in his 1914 poem The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race.
1921: The Congo is mentioned in Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
1930: Both Congo River and basin form the setting of Hoity Toity, the Soviet science fiction novel by Alexander Belyayev.
1980: The Congo River is featured in a chapter of Michael Crichton's novel Congo (published in 1980), as well as in the 1995 film based on the book.
1995: The Congo River is featured in the action film Congo, by director Frank Marshall, although it is not mentioned by name in the film. The film is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton.
1996: British author Redmond O'Hanlon has a travelogue published by Penguin Books under the title of Congo Journey (1996).
1998: The river's history is discussed in the 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost (by Adam Hochschild).
2006: The river's history is discussed in the book Brazza, A Life for Africa (by Maria Petringa, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006).
2007: The Congo River and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the scenario for the 2007 book Blood River by journalist Tim Butcher, based on his intrepid travels up and down Africa's second longest river. Blood River was an attempt to retrace Henry Morton Stanley's trip down the Congo River, documented in Through the Dark Continent (first published, 1878), and was shortlisted for the 2008 British Book Awards.
2010: The Congo River is a central element in the 2010 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, El sueño del celta (The Dream of the Celt), a fictionalisation of episodes in the life of the Irishman Roger Casement. The book is to be published in English in 2012.
2012: Phil Harwood's book "Canoeing the Congo" , Harwood, P. (2012). Canoeing the Congo: First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River. Matador. ISBN 978-1780880075,