Orion's Reviews > The adventures of Tintin, reporter for "Le petit vingtième", in the Congo

Tintin in the Congo, while written for the children's section of a Belgian newspaper in 1930, is so full of Eurocentric racism and speciesism that it cannot be recommended as reading for young people. However, as an example of white supremacy attitudes of the time, it is an interesting document. The book has often been left out of Tintin collections or edited to soften its most egregious content. I found two English language black and white (and one Spanish language color) editions online at www.Scribd.com, a document sharing website. The English copies at Scribd state that this book was "first published in the U.S.A. in 2002." In the Forward the translators say the author "admitted that he depicted his Africans according to the bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period. The same may be said of his treatment of big-game hunting and his attitude towards animals."