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The Congo Zaire Experience 1960 98

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Author : E. O'Ballance
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-11-02

The Congo Zaire Experience 1960 98 written by E. O'Ballance and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-02 with Political Science categories.

A fascinating account of a huge Central African country, almost completely unprepared for liberation from colonial rule in 1960 and plunged into the anarchy of factional struggles for central power, against a background of regional separatism. A UN force stepped in to prevent the mineral-rich province of Katanga from breaking away and stayed for nearly four years, after which quarrelling warlords fought for central power, or for or against separatism. In 1965, Mobutu came to power, ruling as a dictator his Single-Party State, until he was finally toppled in 1997 by a Tutsi-backed invasion force led by Kabila.

Africa S World War

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Author : Gerard Prunier
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-31

Africa S World War written by Gerard Prunier and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-31 with Political Science categories.

The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Désiré Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractible and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Praise for the hardcover: "The most ambitious of several remarkable new books that reexamine the extraordinary tragedy of Congo and Central Africa since the Rwandan genocide of 1994." --New York Review of Books "One of the first books to lay bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster." --Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Book Review "Lucid, meticulously researched and incisive, Prunier's will likely become the standard account of this under-reported tragedy." --Publishers Weekly

Congo Song

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Author : Stuart Cloete
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952

Congo Song written by Stuart Cloete and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Africa categories.

Congo

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Author : David van Reybrouck
language : it
Publisher: Feltrinelli Editore
Release Date : 2016-11-17T00:00:00+01:00

Congo written by David van Reybrouck and has been published by Feltrinelli Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17T00:00:00+01:00 with History categories.

“Dimenticate tutti gli stereotipi sull’Africa. E leggete Congo!” Roberto Saviano Si parte dal gigantesco estuario del fiume Congo, come i colonizzatori, i missionari, i bianchi hanno sempre fatto. Un getto possente di detriti, terra, alberi che trasforma l’oceano in un brodo torbido per centinaia di chilometri: “Le immagini del satellite lo mostrano chiaramente: una macchia brunastra che, durante il picco della stagione dei monsoni, si estende verso ovest per ottocento chilometri. Quando ho visto per la prima volta delle fotografie aeree mi è venuta in mente una persona che si era tagliata i polsi e li teneva sotto l’acqua, ma per sempre. Così, quindi, comincia un paese: diluito in una grande quantità di acqua di oceano”. E poi, attraverso centinaia di interviste con congolesi di tutte le età e le etnie, attraverso lo studio della storia, dell’archeologia, della geografia e della climatologia, attraverso una scrittura tersa e coinvolgente, si va alla scoperta di un paese, di un popolo, di un continente. Dai primi insediamenti preistorici agli orrori della dominazione coloniale belga, dall’indipendenza alle guerre civili, attraverso giungle e città, montagne di ghiacciai perenni e una natura ricchissima e incontaminata, un libro che davvero restituisce un mondo. Un fulminante bestseller in patria, tradotto nelle lingue maggiori, che ha vinto numerosi premi in tutto il mondo. Il più grande reportage africano dai tempi di Ryszard Kapuściński.

Travels In West Africa

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Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

Travels In West Africa written by Mary Henrietta Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Africa, West categories.

Pour Le Congo Brazzaville

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Author : Théophile Obenga
language : fr
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Release Date : 2001

Pour Le Congo Brazzaville written by Théophile Obenga and has been published by Editions L'Harmattan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

Les récents événements, de 1992 à 1999 ont bouleversé et ruiné la nation, l'Etat, la République, la démocratie, l'économie, la solidarité, l'unité, la confiance, la paix, l'espoir. Pour que le Congo retrouve sa force psychologique, son énergie sociale, ses vertus de travail, sa capacité de dialogue, sa dimension africaine, son dynamisme de coopération internationale, il faut partir du PARDON. Dix propositions sont faites ici pour sortir le Congo des impasses psychologiques et socio-politiques actuelles.

Congo

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Author : David Van Reybrouck
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-03-25

Congo written by David Van Reybrouck and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Political Science categories.

Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck’s rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Epic in scope yet eminently readable, penetrating and deeply moving, David van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the fate of one of the world's most critical, failed nation-states, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Van Reybrouck takes us through several hundred years of history, bringing some of the most dramatic episodes in Congolese history. Here are the people and events that have impinged the Congo's development—from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley to the tragic regime of King Leopold II; from global indignation to Belgian colonialism; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's brutal rule; and from the world famous Rumble in the Jungle to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today. Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals—charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, the elderly, female merchant smugglers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China—to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation's history to its people.

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters

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Author : Jason Stearns
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2012-03-27

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters written by Jason Stearns and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with History categories.

A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.

Imagining The Congo

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Author : K. Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-05-29

Imagining The Congo written by K. Dunn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-29 with History categories.

Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship.

Congo Masquerade

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Author : Theodore Trefon
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-09-08

Congo Masquerade written by Theodore Trefon and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-08 with Social Science categories.

Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the well-being of ordinary Congolese. It has, the book demonstrates, been for years an almost unmitigated failure due to the ingrained political culture of corruption amongst the Congolese elite, abetted by the complicity and incompetence of international partners. Startling and provocative, Congo Masquerade offers a critical examination of why aid is not helping the Congo.