Title: The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Decolonization, Colonial influence, Democracy, Congo (democratic republic), history, Congo (democratic republic), politics and government, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Places: Congo (Democratic Republic)
Time periods: 1960-1997, 1997-
LC classification: DT658 .N96 2002