(Download) In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
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| #761560 in Books | 2002-05-28 | 2002-05-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.83 x5.31l,.69 | File Name: 0060934433 | 368 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Congo dissected|By Robert D. King|Superb reporting on the sad history of this most cursed of African countries. Misgoverned as a Belgian colony, misgoverned when independent, rich in resources and possibilities, Congo has no future. Beautifully written, in the end it is "Mistah Kurtz, he dead,,"|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The|.com |During Mobutu Sese Seko's 30 years as president of Zaire (now the Congo), he managed to plunder his nation's economy and live a life of excess unparalleled in modern history. A foreign correspondent in Zaire for six years, Michela Wrong has plenty of tit
Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was pauperized, he plundered the country's copper and diamond resources, downing pink champagne in his jungle palace like some modern-day reincarnation of Joseph Conrad's crazed station man...
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