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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 304 pages)
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Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350223004
Content:
Imperialism, Belgian colonialism and African resistance -- The struggle for independence -- The first Congo crisis -- The second independence movement -- The Mobutu regime: dictatorship and state decay -- The struggle for multiparty democracy -- Conflict in the Great Lakes Region -- Conclusion -- Chronology.
Content:
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index
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Also published in print.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842770528
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ISBN 9781780329390
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ISBN 1780329393
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ISBN 1842770527
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ISBN 9781842770535
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ISBN 9781780329406
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ISBN 1780329407
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges, 1944- Congo from Leopold to Kabila London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2002
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350223004
