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  • Gender and Decolonization in the Congoby Karen Bouwer

    Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00

    Gender and Decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo. more...

  • Consuming the Congoby Peter Eichstaedt

    Chicago Review Press 2011; US$ 19.95

    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 computers, five million Congolese needlessly die in the quest for the valuable minerals that make those technologies... more...

  • Slaver's Wheelby Jack Lawson; Sully de Fontaine

    Hellgate Press 2012; US$ 15.95

    The Congo, 1960. The United Nations grants the former colony independence from Belgium. Patrice Lumumba becomes prime minister. All hell breaks loose. This is the true, never-before-told story of a clandestine mission to rescue those suffering the violence and cruelty resulting from the Congo's hasty transition from colony to independent nation.... more...

  • Imagining the Congoby Kevin C. Dunn

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 41.00

    Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity... more...

  • The African Stakes of the Congo Warby John F. Clark

    Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 34.00

    This book situates the war in its historical and theoretical context and surveys the interests of the Congolese government, the rebel groups, and of the intervening states in the war. more...

  • The Tragic state of the Congoby Jeanne M. Haskin

    Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95

    The Congo is rich in minerals and agricultural potential. What keeps it from emerging as a viable, even prosperous, state? During four centuries of the slave trade, the Portuguese alone claimed over 13.25 million lives. Then, King Leopold II of Belgium to more...