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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Congo Diary: The Story of Che Guevara's "Lost" Year in Africa by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments The story of Che Guevaras year in Africa Che Guevaras intriguing account of the revolutionary war in the Congo, filling in the missing chapter in his life. Prior to his fateful mission to Bolivia, in 1965 Che led a secret Cuban force that went to aid... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 by John Kelly Thornton Publisher Comments In 1704, Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita claimed to be possessed by St Anthony and attempted to stop the devastating civil wars in Kongo.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: the Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (11 Edition) by Jason K. Stearns Publisher Comments At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Remembering the Present by Johannes Fabian Publisher Comments "This is an extraordinarily original, powerfully argued book; provocative in the best sense of the word. The sheer juxtaposition of the terrible history of Zaire as painted by a Zairean popular artist who lived through some of the worst of it, the artist'... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman by Lisa Shannon Publisher Comments Lisa J. Shannon had a good life — a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through the World's Most Dangerous Country by Tim Butcher Publisher Comments A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo -- a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world -- vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist. Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments A brilliant journalistic account of the rape of the Congo chronicles three decades of graft, corruption, and robbery perpetrated by the Mobutu regime in the tragic central African country of Zaire. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo by Pagan Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman by Lisa Shannon Publisher Comments Lisa J. Shannon had a good life — a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Postconflict Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts Publisher Comments The Democratic Republic of the Congo is making significant strides on both the political and economic fronts to extricate itself from one of the bloodiest wars in African history. This remarkable turnaround offers other countries and the international... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $12.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire by Johannes Fabian Publisher Comments This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In the Footsteps of MR. Kurtz : Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (01 Edition) by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chief of Station, Congo: A Memoir of 1960-67 by Larry Devlin Publisher Comments Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chief of Station, Congo by Lawrence Devlin Publisher Comments Describes Larry Devlin's life during his time as CIA Chief of Station in Congo and the key role he played in the cold war there, including all the twists and turns of both Congolese politics and American policies.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments He was known as "the Leopard," and for the thirty-two years of his reign Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, showed all the cunning of his namesake, seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place by Peter Eichstaedt Publisher Comments Going behind the headlines and deep into the brutal world of the Congo, this exposé examines why eastern Congo is the most dangerous place on the planet. While the Western world takes for granted its creature comforts such as cell phones or... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The African Stakes of the Congo War by John F Clark Publisher Comments This is the only available book on the Congo war, the most important current conflict in Africa. Two chapters situate the war in its historical and theoretical context, while others survey the interests of the Congolese government, of the rebel groups... (read more) List Price $109.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo by Charles Pearson Synopsis Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo (08 Edition) by Jules Marchal Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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