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Together, my brothers, my sisters, we are going to begin a new struggle, a sublime struggle, which will lead our country to peace, prosperity, and greatness. Together, we are going to establish social justice…make the Congo a nation, happy and free. - Patrice Emery Lumumba. |
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| Readings on the Congo |
- NONFICTION BOOKS
- Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, 1999, Mariner Books
- Ch. Didier Gondola, The History of Congo, 2002,Greenwood Press
- Christian P. Scherrer, Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War, 2001, Praeger Publishers
- Collection Regard des Africains sur le Continent, Conflit Belgo-Zairois : Fondements historiques, politiques, economiques et culturels, 1990, Editions Présence Africaine
- E. D. Morel, Great Britain and the Congo: The Pillage of the Congo Bassin, 1969, Howard Fertig
- E. D. Morel, The Black Man’s Burden: The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I, 1969,Modern Reader Paperbacks
- E. D. Morel, Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo of the Year of Grace 1906, 2005, University Press of the Pacific
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo, 2001, Grove Press
- Gary Stewart, Rumba on The River: A History of The Popular Music of The Two Congos, 2000, Verso
- Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History, 2002, Zed Books
- Jean-Claude Willame, Patrice Lumumba: La Crise Congolaise Revisitée, 1990, Editions Karthala
- Jean-Claude Willame, Patrimonialism and Political Change in the Congo, 1972, Stanford University Press
- Jean-Claude Willame, La Politique Africaine de la Belgique à L’épreuve :Les Relations Belgo-Zaïroises, 1985, Les Cahiers du CEDAF-ASCOC Studies
- Jean VAN LIERDE, La Pensée Politique de Patrice Lumumba, 1963, Editions Présence Africaine
- Jeanne M. Haskin, The Tragic State of Congo: From Decolonization to Dictatorship, 2005, Algora Pub
- Jeffrey Tayler, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, 2001, Three Rivers Press
- Jideofor Adibe, The Democratic Republic of Congo: From Peace Rhetoric to Sustainable Political Stability? 2007, Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
- Jimmie Briggs, Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War, 2005, Basic Books
- John F. Clark, The African Stakes of the Congo War, 2004, Palgrave Macmillan
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary, 2007, Peguin Classics
- Larry Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone, 2007, PublicAffairs
- Louis & Stengers, E. D. Morel’s History of the Congo Reform Movement, 1968
- Ludo De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba, 2001, Verso
- Michael Wallace Nest, Francois Grignon, and Emizet F. Kisangani, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace (International Peace Academy), 2005, Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo, 2002, Harper Perennial
- Nicolas de Torrente, Simon Robinson & James Nachtwey, Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2006, Ladefoged, Nachtwey Publisher: de.MO
- Osita George Afoaku, Explaining the Failure of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Autocracy and Dissent in an Ambivalent World (African Studies), 2005, Edwin Mellen Press
- Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, 1999, Farrar, Staus and Giroux
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Crime of the Congo, 2000, Classic Books
- Theodore Trefon, Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa, 2005,Zed Books
- Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912, 1992, Avon Books
- Thomas Turner, The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality, 2007, Zed Books
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, 2008, Anchor
- US Government, 21st Century Complete Guide to Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, formerly Zaire – Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, Historiy, DOD, State Dept., White House, CIA Factbook (2 CD-ROM Set) (CD-ROM), 2007, Progressive Management
- William T. Close, Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu’s Congo/Zaire, 2006, Meadowlark Springs Production
- FICTION
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- Bryan Mealer, All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in the Congo
- Christian Filostrat, The Beggars’ Pursuit
- Dave Donelson, Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo
- John Le Carre, The Mission Song: A Novel
- Matthew Head, The Devil in the Bush
- Ronan Bennett, The Catastrophist
- W. E. B. Griffin, The New Breed: Brotherhood of War 07
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