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Reading List

 

READING LIST ON THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, FORMERLY ZAIRE
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NONFICTION BOOKS
• 21st Century Complete Guide to Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasha, formerly Zaire - Encyclopedic Coverage, Country Profile, History, DOD, State Dept., White House, CIA Factbook (Two CD-ROM Set) by U.S. Government

• Beyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless & the Powerful in Mobutu’s Congo/Zaire by William T. Close

• Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Larry Devlin

• E.D. Morel’s History of the Congo Reform Movement by Wm. Roger & Jean Stengers Louis

• Explaining the Failure of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Autocracy And Dissent in an Ambivalent World (African Studies) by Osita George Afoaku

• Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness by Jeffrey Tayler

• Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War by Christian P. Scherrer

• GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONGO: THE PILLAGE OF THE CONGO BASIN. With an introduction by A. Conan Doyle. by E. D. Morel

• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo by Michela Wrong

• Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War by Jimmie Briggs

• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

• Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906 by E. D. Morel

• Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa by Theodore Trefon

• Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo by Nicolas de Torrente

• The African Stakes of the Congo War by John F. Clark

• The Black Man’s Burden: The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I by E. D. Morel

• The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality by Thomas Turner

•The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

• The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper) by Michael Wallace Nest

• The Democratic Republic of Congo: From Peace Rhetoric to Sustainable Political Stability? by Jideofor Adibe

• The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto “Che” Guevara

• The History of Congo: by Ch. Didier Gondola

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham

• The Tragic State of Congo: From Decolonization to Dictatorship by Jeanne M. Haskin

• To Katanga and back,: A UN case history by Conor Cruise O’Brien

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

FICTION
• All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo by Bryan Mealer

• Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad

• Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo by Dave Donelson

• The Beggars’ Pursuit by Christian Filostrat

• The Catastrophist: A Novel by Ronan Bennett

• The Devil in the Bush (Dr. Mary Finney Mysteries) by Matthew Head

• The Mission Song: A Novel by John Le Carre

• The New Breed: Brotherhood of War 07 (Brotherhood of War) by W. E. B. Griffin

• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver