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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Southern_Ear_6462 on 2025-09-19 19:00:47+00:00.
I’m currently reading the book Blood River by Tim Butcher and I wanted to suggest it here as an insight not into the collapse but into how society will look like post collapse.
Tim Butcher travels through across the Congo following Stanley, the explorer footsteps. His journey in 2004, decades after decolonization and civil wars gives an insight into how a country looks after instability sets in completely decade after decade.
The reporter travels through old Belgium colony cities now completely abandoned, the rail, ferry and road networks made by the Belgium colonizers have long collapsed and a simple travel through two old cities is a struggle through jungle paths…
The book goes deep in explaining all the history of the Congo since the Portuguese first met the local tribes and is in no way giving a good image to colonial powers but explaining how a succession of countries exploiting this very rich region of Africa.
The story of the R.D.C. seems to me to be a perfect model on what the world can look like post-collapse.
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