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Congo (Hardcover)
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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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