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The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

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ISBN-10:: 1842770535
ISBN-13:: 9781842770535
Pub. Date:: 02/01/2002
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic

ISBN-10:: 1842770535
ISBN-13:: 9781842770535
Pub. Date:: 02/01/2002
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic

The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

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Overview

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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ISBN-13:	9781842770535
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/01/2002
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	992,836
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is a renowned scholar of African politics and an international consultant specializing in public policy, governance and conflict-related issues. Past President of the African Studies Association of the United States (ASA) and of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), Professor Nzongola is the author of several books and numerous articles on African politics, development, and conflict issues. His major work, The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, won the 2004 Best Book Award of the African Politics Conference Group (APCG), an organization of American political scientists specializing on Africa.
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is a renowned scholar of African politics and an international consultant specializing in public policy, governance and conflict-related issues. Past President of the African Studies Association of the United States (ASA) and of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), Professor Nzongola is the author of several books and numerous articles on African politics, development, and conflict issues. His major work, The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, won the 2004 Best Book Award of the African Politics Conference Group (APCG), an organization of American political scientists specializing on Africa.

Introduction
1. Imperialism, Belgian Colonialism and African Resistance
2. The Struggle for Independence
3. The First Congo Crisis
4. The Second Independence Movement
5. The Mobutu Regime: Dictatorship and State Decay
6. The Struggle for Multiparty Democracy
7. Conflict in the Great Lakes Region
Conclusions

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Editorial Reviews

"It is refreshing to have a well-written popular history of the Congo by a Congolese scholar and sometime activist" --Choice
"A leading Congolese scholar-activist, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, delivers his magnum opus. The book is the product of a lifetime of study of Congolese politics, both as observer and participant. The richly documented narrative makes clear why Congolese nationalism survives the collapse of its state, the many decades of oppressive rule, and the depredations of external forces." --Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Authoritative books in English on the Congo are scarce, so this work by a leading Congolese academic is welcome" --Gail M. Gerhart, Foreign Affairs
"Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is one among those very few intellectuals who possesses the background, the knowledge, the commitment and the vantage point from which to assess the historical possibilities for contemporary Congo." --Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University

From the Publisher

Criticizing the international community's seeming rejection of change in Africa through democratic means, as opposed to by strong-arm political leaders, professor and democracy activist Nzongola-Ntalaja outlines the history of the democracy movement in the Congo. Deeply critical of the Belgian imperialists, Mobutu and his supporters, as well as the Kabila regime that overthrew Mobutu, he connects the struggle for democracy to the Western corporations that oppose it and to local corrupt elites. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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