In Congo S Shadow
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In Congo S Shadow
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Author : Louise Linton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-16
In Congo S Shadow written by Louise Linton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-16 with categories.
In Congo's Shadow is the inspiring memoir of an intrepid teenager who abandoned her privileged life in Scotland to travel to Zambia as a gap year student where she found herself inadvertently caught up in the fringe of the Congolese War. A 'skinny white muzungu with long angel hair', Louise was an anomaly in darkest Africa. Posted to a tiny village on the shores of Lake Tanganyika just miles from Congo, she became immersed in a remote world of unsurpassed natural beauty rife with hidden danger. Life was at first idyllic. As the weeks passed, Louise formed close friendships with the Bemba people, learnt their language, and created a little school under the Mukusi tree. Still struggling with the untimely loss of her mother, Louise found comfort in her bond with Zimba, a six-year-old orphan girl who she came to love as her own. Monsoon season came and went, and just as normal life resumed Louise fell for a young German pilot, but their courtship could not last. News of civil war was spreading down the lake as the Hutu-Tutsi conflict began to escalate... This compelling coming-of-age story is a tale of lost innocence and one daring young girl's bittersweet journey to heart of Africa as she conquers fear, breaks barriers and learns that friendship can transcend race, age, and history.
Congo Shadows
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Author : John B. Franz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-28
Congo Shadows written by John B. Franz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with Fiction categories.
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.
Congo Shadows
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Author : John B. Franz
language : en
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Release Date : 2016-11-18
Congo Shadows written by John B. Franz and has been published by First Edition Design Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-18 with Fiction categories.
Congo
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Author : David van Reybrouck
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Congo written by David van Reybrouck and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with History categories.
Epic yet eminently readable, penetrating and profoundly moving, ‘Congo’ traces the fate of one of the world's most devastated countries, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo.
King Leopold S Ghost
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Author : Adam Hochschild
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-05-02
King Leopold S Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with History categories.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. King Leopold's Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity. 'All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel' - Robert Harris, author of Fatherland
In The Shadow Of Violence
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Author : Douglass C. North
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
In The Shadow Of Violence written by Douglass C. North and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.
Spies In The Congo
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Author : Williams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Spies In The Congo written by Williams 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 2018-05-31 with History categories.
Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America’s desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb. The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth, vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the enemy — a task entrusted to Washington’s elite secret intelligence agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men — and one woman — in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.
International Status In The Shadow Of Empire
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Author : Cait Storr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-17
International Status In The Shadow Of Empire written by Cait Storr and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Law categories.
This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.
The Speech Of The Negros Congos Of Panama
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Author : John M. Lipski
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1989
The Speech Of The Negros Congos Of Panama written by John M. Lipski and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and punishments'. A key component of congo games is a special dialect, the hablar en congos, which is employed by a subset of the congos in each settlement. The present study investigates the congo dialect from a linguistic point of view along two dimensions. The first involves deliberate phonetic, syntactic, and semantic distortion as part of the overall spirit of of burlesque and ridicule that surrounds Panamanian Carnival. The second is the retention of earlier, partially creolized Afro-Hispanic language forms which may still be extracted from contemporary congo speech. These Afro-Hispanic vestiges are of key importance to monogenetic theories of Afro-Romance creolization as Panamanian congo speech provides examples of unique creolized Spanish.