The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
by Ernesto Che Guevara, Translated by Patrick Camiller
Listed under Che
Guevara
Africa's
Mountains of the Moon: Journeys to the Snowy Sources of the Nile
by G. H. Yeoman, Christabel King
Hardcover from Universe Books
Book Published: October, 1989
American
Congo : The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Hardcover from Harvard Univ Pr
Book Published: May, 2003
The
Assassination of Lumumba
by Ludo De Witte
Hardcover: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x
9.52 x 6.44
Verso Books; ISBN: 1859846181; (September 2001)
Che in Africa: Che Guevara's Congo Diary
from Ocean Press
Listed under Che
Guevara
The
Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960-98
from Palgrave Macmillan
The
African Stakes of the Congo War
by John F. Clark
Hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan
Book Published: 14 September, 2002
Congo-Paris:
Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law (African Issues Published
in Association With International African institutE)
by Janet Macgaffey, Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga, International African Institute
Paperback from Indiana University Press
Book Published: September, 2000
Black
Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
by Pagan Kennedy
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
Book Published: January, 2003
Captive
in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness
by Michael P. E. Hoyt, Monteagle Stearns
Hardcover from United States Naval Inst.
Book Published: November, 2000
Colonialism
in the Congo Basin 1880-1940 (Monographs in International Studies: African
Series, No 64)
by Samuel H. Nelson
Paperback from Ohio Univ Ctr for Intl Studies
Book Published: December, 1994
The
Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Paperback from Zed Books
Book Published: 03 May, 2002
Congo
Cables: The Cold War in Africa--From Eisenhower to Kennedy
by Marvin Kalb, Madeleine G. Kalb
Hardcover from MacMillan Publishing Company
Book Published: May, 1982
Culture
and Customs of the Congo
by Tshilemalema Mukenge
Hardcover from Greenwood Publishing Group
Book Published: November, 2001
East
Along the Equator : A Journey Up the Congo and into Zaire
by Helen Winternitz
The
Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary
by Roger Casement
Paperback from University College Dublin Press
Book Published: 01 March, 2004
European
Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State and Its
Aftermath
by Martin Ewans
Hardcover from Curzon Press
Book Published: April, 2002
From
Zaire to the Democratic Republic of Congo (Current African Issues, 20)
by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Forests
and the Democratic Republic of Congo: Opportunity in a Time of Crisis
from World Resources Inst
From
the Congo Free State to Zaire : how Belgium privatized the economy : a
history of Belgian stock companies in Congo-Zaire from 1885 to 1974
by Jacques Depelchin
Hardcover: 235 pages
Publisher: Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA; (April
1992)
ISBN: 1870784111
Genocide
in the Congo, Zaire: In the Name of Bill Clinton, and of the Paris Club,
and of the Mining Conglomerates, So It Is
by Yaa-Lengi M. Ngemi
An incredible and horrific tale of genocide and unbelievable atrocities,
both in words and in pictures. Genocide in the Congo/Zaire exposes incredible
and horrific atrocities taking place in the heart of Africa, in the Congo/Zaire,
a country that is as big as all of Western Europe or the United States
East of the Mississippi River. The world, though, is silent over 1.7 million
deaths, a number larger that the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Why the silence?
How come the American mainstream media has not raised hell or demanded
action? Is this a repeat of the 1960s when the American Government and
its CIA engaged in covert operations to kill foreign heads of states and
destabilize foreign governments that they did not like? What is happening
in the Congo comes close to that. The 1.7 million Congolese have died with
the financial, military and political blessings and help of the US Government,
Western Europe (The Paris Club), and the mining conglomerates. Who own
the media outlets? Who finance the politicians' campaigns? Genocide in
the Congo (Zaire) exposes, both in words and pictures, the genocide and
humanitarian misery being directed by President Clinton, Europe and the
companies that are enriching themselves over Congo's mineral wealth. Because
President Kabila of the Congo wants a fair deal for the wealth of his country,
Clinton and the West don't like him. So he must be removed, like was done
to Patrice Lumumba in the 60s. In this process, already 1.7 million Congolese
have died. Would genocide, rape, and mutilations of the Congolese be President
Clinton's Congo Legacy? The Publisher.
Paperback: 116 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.31 x
8.96 x 5.99
iUniverse.com; ISBN: 0595139388; (October 2000)
In
the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's
Congo
by Michela Wrong
Paperback from Perennial
Book Published: 28 May, 2002
Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende
by Z. S. Strother
Listed under African Art
The
King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo
by Neal Ascherson
Paperback from Granta Books
Book Published: 09 September, 2001
King
Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim
history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of
which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched
the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other
European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing
for himself or his people. When he eventually found a suitable location
in what would become the Belgian Congo, later known as Zaire and now simply
as Congo, Leopold set about establishing a rule of terror that would culminate
in the deaths of 4 to 8 million indigenous people, "a death toll," Hochschild
writes, "of Holocaust dimensions." Those who survived went to work mining
ore or harvesting rubber, yielding a fortune for the Belgian king, who
salted away billions of dollars in hidden bank accounts throughout the
world. Hochschild's fine book of historical inquiry, which draws heavily
on eyewitness accounts of the colonialists' savagery, brings this little-studied
episode in European and African history into new light. --Gregory McNamee
- Amazon.com
Hardcover: 366 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.28 x
9.35 x 6.37
Houghton Mifflin Co; ISBN: 0395759242; (September 1998) |
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King
Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule
by Mark Twain
Paperback: 96 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x
8.00 x 5.00
Publisher: International Publishers Co; (March 1991)
ISBN: 0717806871
Leisure
and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
by Phyllis Martin, J. M. Lonsdale, J. D. Y. Peel, John Sender
Hardcover from Cambridge University Press
Book Published: January, 1996
Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest
by Georges Meurant, Robert Farris Thompson
Listed under African Art
No
Mercy : A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
by Redmond O'Hanlon
Hardcover from Knopf
Book Published: 06 May, 1997
The
Okapi : Mysterious Animal of Cong-Zaire
by Susan Lyndaker Lindsey, Mary Neel Green (Illustrator), Cynthia L.
Bennett
Congo-Zaire contains Africa's largest remaining tracts of intact rain
forest, making it one of the most important regions for biodiversity conservation.
Its Ituri Forest is home to plants and animals native to nowhere else on
earth, including the elusive and little-known okapi.
Paperback: 140 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.38 x
8.98 x 6.04
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr; (April 1999)
ISBN: 0292747071
The Path of a Genocide : The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire
by Howard Adelman et al.
Listed under Rwanda
The
Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U.S. Policy
in the Congo Crisis (American Politics and Political Economy)
from University of Chicago Press
The
Ponds of Kalambayi
by Mike Tidwell
Paperback from The Lyons Press
Book Published: 01 May, 1996
A
Private War: An American Code Officer in the Belgian Congo
by Robert Laxalt
Paperback from Univ of Nevada Pr
Book Published: October, 1998
The
Rise and Decline of the Zairian State
by Crawford Young, Thomas Turner
Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press
Book Published: September, 1985
The
Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo
by Robert B. Edgerton
Book Description: Plundered for centuries for its natural resources
(which remain Africa's most abundant), the Congo was not always a place
of horror. Before the Portuguese landed on its shores at the end of the
15th century, it was a prosperous and thriving region. The Congo River,
the world's second longest as well as the deepest, and one of the only
routes to the continent's interior, provided indigenous populations with
ample means for living and trading. What the Portuguese found first to
exploit were people, and with the slave trade began a dizzying downward
spiral of conquest and degradation that continued for centuries. By the
19th century the race to explore the full length of the legendary river
masked a fight for territorial and moral control among the French, Arabs,
British, Germans, as well as American missionaries, all of whom dreamed
of possessing Africa's very heart. When King Leopold of Belgium managed
to solidify control in 1885, the Congo "question" seemed solved. His reign,
of course, was almost pathological in its cruelty-the true source of Conrad's
"horror"-and its grim legacy endures to this day.
Edgerton documents the Congo's long, sad history with a sense of empathy
with and admiration for the character of the land and its inhabitants.
Since independence in June 1960, the country has endured the machinations
and disappointments of one dictator after another, beginning with Patrice
Lumumba, and continuing through Joseph Mobutu, Laurent Kabila, and today
Kabila's son, Joseph, who assumed power after his father was assassinated
in January 2001. Whether called the "Congo Free State," or "Zaire," or
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country remains perilously unstable.
The Troubled Heart of Africa is the only book to give a complete history
of the Congo, filling in the blanks in the country's history before the
advent of Henry Stanley, David Livingstone, King Leopold, and other figures,
and carrying us straight into today's headlines. The Congo continues today
to be the subject of intense speculation and concern, and with good reason:
upon it hangs the fate of sub-Sahara Africa as a whole. Here is a book
that helps us face the stark truths of the Congo's past and appreciate
both the enormous potential and uncertainty of its future.
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: 01 December, 2002
Report
of the Kingdom of Congo & of the Surroundings: Countries Drawn Out
or the Writings of the Portuguese Duarte Lopez
by Filippo Pigafetta, Duarte Lopes
Hardcover from International Specialized Book Services
Book Published: March, 1970
Special Order
Rise
and Fall of Patrice Lumumba
by Thomas N. Kanza
(Paperback - June 1979)
Remembering
the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire
by Johannes Fabian, Tshibumba K. Matulu
Hardcover from University of California Press
Book Published: November, 1996
The
River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration and Exploitation of the World's
Most Dramatic River
by Peter Forbath
Paperback from Houghton Mifflin Company
Book Published: February, 1991
Dictionary
of African Biography : Sierra Leone/Zaire
The
Transition Towards Democracy in Post-1990 Zaire
by Mondonga M. Mokoli
Book Description: This timely book, written by a Zairean sociologist,
provides a useful evaluation of the transition from one party dictatorship
to multiparty democracy in Post-1990 Zaire. The in-depth causes of this
failed transition are rooted in the Belgian colonialism, and more importantly
in the nature and the role of the post-colonial state that Mobutu Sese
Seko and his associates have engineered and implemented in Zaire for more
than three decades. Instead of social progress, this transition period
ahs rather been a political maneuver geared to sustain the status quo and
the kleptocracy in their best interests, but at the expense of most Zaireans.
It has prompted Post-1990 Zaire from the stage of chaos to oen of a complete
collaspe of socio-economic and political structures. Feudalistic rationality,
anarchy, pillage, abject poverty, refugee crisis and armed conflict, which
are likely to lead to the destabilization of the whole central African
region, are among the significant indicators of this failed transition.
The book calls for free market rationality and socio-economic development
at the grass roots level as the prime mover that can recreate, empower
and freee the Zairean civil society in order to put the democratic transition
back on track. This is a necessary and a sufficient condition that will
enable this civil soicety to make appropriate choices of its representatives,
who cand design and set up social structures conductive to sustainable
democracy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN); (June
1997)
ISBN: 157309143X
Prison
Conditions in Zaire
by Peter Rosenblum
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 11.25 x 9.00
Publisher: Human Rights Watch; (January 1994)
ISBN: 1564321207
War
and Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Current African Issues,
No. 22)
by Herbert Weiss
Paperback from Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Book Published: August, 2000
We
Two Alone: Attack and Rescue in the Congo
by Ruth Hege
Paperback from Emerald House Group
Book Published: April, 1998
Working
Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise,
and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951
from Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Zaire
: A Country Study (Area Handbook Series)
Rumba
on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos
by Gary Stewart
Paperback from Verso Books
Book Published: January, 2004
Rural
Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
by Osumaka Likaka
Book Description: This masterful social and economic history
of rural Zaire examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton
cultivation in central Africa from 1917 to 1960. Osumaka Likaka recreates
daily life inside the colonial cotton regime. He shows that, to ensure
widespread cotton production and to overcome continued peasant resistance,
the colonial state and the cotton companies found it necessary to augment
their use of threats and force with efforts to win the cooperation of the
peasant farmers, through structural reforms, economic incentives, and propaganda
exploiting African popular culture.
Lumumba and Malcolm: Black National Separatists
Maglangbayan, Shawn. Garvey, Third World Press, Chicago 1972.
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Religion and Society in Central Africa : The Bakongo of Lower Zaire
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Snowcaps on the Equator : The Fabled Mountains of Kenya, Tanzania,
Uganda and Zaire
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
The Organization of African Unity and the Congo Crisis, 1964-65,
documents.
Hoskyns, Catherine. Institute of Public Administration, 1969.
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
The Congo Since Independence, January 1960-December 1961.
Hoskyns, Catherine. Oxford University Press, London 1965.
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Murderous Angels: A Political Tragedy and Comedy in Black and White
O'Brien, Conor.
Little Brown, Boston 1968.
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Books
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, VHS
California Newsreel
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Books
Lumumba: The Last Fifty Days
by Heinz, G and Donnay, H.
Grove Press, Inc., New York 1969.
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Lumumba Speaks: The speeches and writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961
Lumumba, Patrice, Little Brown, Boston 1972.
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
McKown, Robin, Lumumba: A Biography
Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1969.
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Patrice Lumumba: Fighter for African Freedom
Progress Publishers, Moscow 1961.
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A Season in the Congo; A Play
Cesaire, Aime
Grove Press, New York 1969.
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The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara
Harper Perennial Library, 1999.
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