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The Congo from Leopold to Kabila - A People's History (Hardcover)
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The Congo from Leopold to Kabila - A People's History (Hardcover)
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The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal
colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of
robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare
which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this
insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have
not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought
over many years to establish democratic institutions at home and
free themselves from foreign exploitation; indeed these are two
aspects of a single project. Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja is one of
his country's leading intellectuals and his panoramic understanding
of the personalities and events, as well as class, ethnic and other
factors, make his book a lucid, radical and utterly unromanticized
account of his countrymen's struggle. His people's defeat and the
state's post-colonial crisis are seen as resulting from a
post-independence collapse of the anti-colonial alliance between
the masses and the national leadership . This book is essential
reading for understanding what is happening in the Congo and the
Great Lakes region under the rule of the late President Kabila, and
now his son. It will also stand as a milestone in how to write the
modern political history of Africa.
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