The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
Subtitle: a people's history
By: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja.
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Democracy -- Congo (Democratic Republic); Decolonization -- Congo (Democratic Republic); Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997.; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonial influence.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-293) and index.