Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0718ZXL7L |
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| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State.. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as - and was a direct consequence of - the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. In this deeply reported book, Jason K. Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it
The Heart of Darkness redux R. M. Peterson Of the too many hellholes on this planet, perhaps the worst is the Congo. Starting in the sixteenth century it became the center for the European and Arab harvesting of slaves. Not only were millions of Africans hauled away as slaves, the slave trade devastated wh. An excellent read explaining so much I read this after a recent trip to Uganda. I've visited Africa multiple times and this book gives a fantastic background to more of the continents challenges and issues than I expected. I wanted to learn more specifically about the DRC and came away with a much be. worthwhile read Benji A really useful background book to understanding the complexities of the terrible ongoing strife in the DRC. Very well researched and written in a very easy-to-read style, it offers personal accounts of the war from all sides. Disappointing that the sexual violenc