num_pages: 205
description: This is the exciting saga of the second largest country in Africa one which has had a full experience of civil wars tribal uprisings revolts plots against Presidents and separatist invasions since being suddenly plunged into independence in 1960. The book examines how a UN force stepped in to prevent the mineral-rich province of Katanga from breaking away staying for nearly four years after which quarrelling war lords fought for central power. In 1965 Mobutu came to power ruling as a dictator of his Single Party State until he was finally toppled in 1997 by a Tutsi-back invasion force led by Kabila.
language: English
title: The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960-98
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan