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King Leopold's Ghost (98 Edition)
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...
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All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
by Bryan Mealer Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent’s gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country’s dark and brutal history. After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers...
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Chief of Station, Congo (07 Edition)
by 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...
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The Ponds of Kalambayi
by Mike Tidwell Publisher Comments Lovers of fine travel- and adventure-writing will welcome this first paperback edition of Mike Tidwell's richly acclaimed The Ponds of Kalambayi. Tidwell had no clue what awaited him when he headed off to the remote corners of Zaire as a fresh-faced...
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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...
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Kianfa's Congo
by Hugo Daems Synopsis Recollections of a decade spent in the Congo between the 1950s and 1960s. Takes the reader deep into the Central African rural life of the Sonde Tribe....
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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...
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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 Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index....
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The Assassination of Lumumba
by Ludo De Witte Synopsis Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Rupublic of the Congo was at the centre of the country's defiance towards the exploitation of its Belgian coloniser. Within months of independence he was arrested, tortured and executed. This book reveals...
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Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
by Andrew Meldrum Publisher Comments Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum...
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The River Congo :the discovery, exploration, and exploitation of the world's most dramatic river
by Peter Forbath Book News Annotation An account of the great river over 600 years since its "discovery" by "civilization", told as a seamless narrative of adventure. A reprint of the HarperCollins edition of 1977. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies
by Joan T Mark Publisher Comments Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904–53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a...
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Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840
by David S Newbury Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-366) and index....
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Black Heart: A Voyage into Central Africa
by Paul Hyland Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-277) and index....
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River Congo the Discovery Exploration &
by Peter Forbath
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Congo
by John Latouche
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The Crisis in Zaire :myths and realities
by Immanue Wallerstein
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The Mwindo epic from the Banyanga Congo Republic
by Daniel Biebuyck
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River Congo the Discovery Exploration
by Peter Forbath
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Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo
by Georges Balandier
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