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Congo (Hardcover): David van Reybrouck

Congo (Hardcover)

David van Reybrouck

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Epic, yet eminently readable and profoundly moving, the winner of the Prix Medicis essai 2012 and the AKO Literature Prize traces the fate of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a span of several hundred years and an enormous cast of characters, 'Congo' chronicles the most dramatic episodes of the nation's history, the people and events that have determined Congo's development - from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley and his meeting with Dr Livingstone to the brutal regime of Belgium's King Leopold II; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's exploitative rule; and from Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's world famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today. David Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals - charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, elderly, female 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 in an attempt to return a nation's history to its people.

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Imprint: Fourth Estate
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2014
Authors: David van Reybrouck
Dimensions: 240 x 159 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-756290-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > History > African history > General
LSN: 0-00-756290-X
Barcode: 9780007562909

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