Hands up 12:35 - Aug 8 with 5147 views BrixtonBlue Who had actually heard of Kinshasa before all of Phil's Nsiala stories? <keeps hands firmly down>
Hands up on 12:36 - Aug 8 with 3815 viewsPJH Has Kinshasa ever played in League One?
Hands up on 12:44 - Aug 8 with 3772 viewsBrixtonBlue Hands up on 12:36 - Aug 8 by PJH Has Kinshasa ever played in League One?
I think he played for Colchester.
Hands up on 12:44 - Aug 8 with 3768 viewsClapham_Junction Location of the Rumble in the Jungle fight and also thought to the origin of the global HIV pandemic.
Hands up on 12:45 - Aug 8 with 3757 viewsHerbivore It's a pretty well-known place.
Hands up on 12:46 - Aug 8 with 3750 viewsBarneycurley Hands up on 12:44 - Aug 8 by Clapham_Junction Location of the Rumble in the Jungle fight and also thought to the origin of the global HIV pandemic.
Congrats re RITJ ALI Bomaye
Hands up on 12:49 - Aug 8 with 3733 viewsSarge It’s in Zaire
Hands up on 12:52 - Aug 8 with 3714 viewsBrixtonBlue Hands up on 12:45 - Aug 8 by Herbivore It's a pretty well-known place.
Is it?
Yes, obviously :) (n/t) on 12:54 - Aug 8 with 3704 viewsDyland
Login to get fewer adsHands up on 12:56 - Aug 8 with 3681 viewsHerbivore Yes.
Hands up on 12:57 - Aug 8 with 3673 viewsBrixtonBlue Is it though?
Hands up on 12:57 - Aug 8 with 3665 viewsSteve_M Yes, it's not exactly a provincial backwater.
Hands up on 12:59 - Aug 8 with 3656 viewsHerbivore Yes. It's one of the biggest cities in Africa and probably the world.
Hands up on 13:03 - Aug 8 with 3630 viewsBrixtonBlue Hands up on 12:57 - Aug 8 by Steve_M Yes, it's not exactly a provincial backwater.
Maybe my knowledge is a provincial backwater?
Hands up on 13:05 - Aug 8 with 3612 viewsEdwardStone Very much so It was home to the immense music talent of this fine fellow VIDEO Now sadly deceased
Hands up on 13:21 - Aug 8 with 3555 viewsSouthBucksBlue Very much so. Read "King Leopold's Ghost" if you're a reading man. Fantastic eye opener to the exploitation of Congo.
Hands up on 13:36 - Aug 8 with 3518 viewsitfcjoe Read The Fight by Norman Mailer - one of the best sports books ever written
Yes, maybe on 13:38 - Aug 8 with 3506 viewsDyland Hands up on 13:03 - Aug 8 by BrixtonBlue Maybe my knowledge is a provincial backwater?
You've definitely improved since you worked out how to buy a suit though.
Hands up on 13:38 - Aug 8 with 3502 viewsSouthBucksBlue Hands up on 13:36 - Aug 8 by itfcjoe Read The Fight by Norman Mailer - one of the best sports books ever written
About the rumble in the jungle?
Hands up on 13:42 - Aug 8 with 3466 viewsHerbivore Hands up on 13:36 - Aug 8 by itfcjoe Read The Fight by Norman Mailer - one of the best sports books ever written
Good shout, it's a cracking book.
Hands up on 13:43 - Aug 8 with 3463 viewsNo9 Yes I had heard of it as, when flying home, my flight's original departure airport was there That was a long time ago
Hands up on 13:45 - Aug 8 with 3446 viewsGuthrum Or Leopoldville, as it was formerly named.
Hands up on 13:45 - Aug 8 with 3445 viewstractordownsouth My development economics project in college was on DR Congo so yes I had.
Hands up on 13:48 - Aug 8 with 3434 viewsGuthrum But do you know the captial of the other Congo (Republic of the), which is only just across the river.
Hands up on 13:49 - Aug 8 with 3427 viewsSwansea_Blue In Zaire innit.
Hands up on 13:52 - Aug 8 with 3408 viewsSwansea_Blue Hands up on 13:48 - Aug 8 by Guthrum But do you know the captial of the other Congo (Republic of the), which is only just across the river.
Wasn't there a Boma or Buma or something like that in the old Belgian Congo? Is it that?