CONGO: A Journey to Our Deepest Roots

By Hugo Daems

The author lived seven years in the Congo as a servant of the Belgian government. He fostered deep bonds with the primitive Sonde tribe and gained the full confidence of Kianza, their illiterate tribal chief, who inspired this book. The deep knowledge of the earliest African life is lost forever because those who knew it could not write and thos

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hugo Daems
• Release date: Jun 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9781948828680

Hugo Daems

HUGO DAEMS was exposed to Congolese culture from a very early age. His parents went to the Belgian Congo in 1921, shortly after WWI. His father was the harbor master of Matatdi and helped establish MANU-CONGO, (later called OTRACO), a railroad system between Matatdi and Antwerp. They visited his parents in Antwerp regularly and soon Hugo learned to speak Kikongo, one of the principal languages in Congo. His father died a short time after Hugo graduated from High School. The author worked his way through college as a dock worker in Antwerp. After graduating from both the Business and Political Science programs at the Colonial University of Antwerp, he was drafted in the Belgian Air Force, where he became a Lieutenent. As soon as he was discharged, he married and left for the Congo where he served in the Administration for the Belgian Government. In 1961, after Congo had become independent, he emigrated to the USA with his wife and daughter. He worked at first as an assembly line worker for Hewlett-Packard, graduated from UC Berkeley in 1965 with an MBA degree, and found employment in international finance department with several major US companies. In 1980, he started his own management consulting company and obtained important assignments for projects in every continent. Besides articles, in professional magazines, he also published a book entitled Business Planning and Financing to help bridge the education gap between engineering and accounting curricula.

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Copyright © 2019 by Hugo Daems.

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ISBN: 978-1-948828-67-3 [Paperback Edition]

978-1-948828-68-0 [eBook Edition]

Printed and bound in The United States of America.

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