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A brilliant journalistic account of the rape of the Congo chronicles three decades of graft, corruption, and robbery perpetrated by the Mobutu regime in the tragic central African country of Zaire. Reprint.
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"Wholly unsentimental ... Wrong gets it right ... [a] chillingly amusing cautionary tale." (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World)
"A riveting inspection of the legacy of European colonialism in Africa" (A.L.A. Booklist)
"The beauty of this book is that it makes sense of chaos." (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
"In lively prose ... Wrong combines travelogue with astute political analysis ... terrific." (Library Journal Review)
"Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land." (Sunday Times)
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"A riveting inspection of the legacy of European colonialism in Africa" (A.L.A. Booklist)
"The beauty of this book is that it makes sense of chaos." (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
"In lively prose ... Wrong combines travelogue with astute political analysis ... terrific." (Library Journal Review)
"Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land." (Sunday Times)
Michela Wrong has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC, and the Financial Times. She has written about Africa for Slate.com and is a frequent commentator on African affairs in the media. Her first book, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, won the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Nonfiction. She lives in London.
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- EditorePerennial
- Data di pubblicazione2002
- ISBN 10 0060934433
- ISBN 13 9780060934439
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine368
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: New. 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 manager.Michela Wrong, a correspondent who witnessed Mobutu's last days, traces the rise and fall of the idealistic young journalist who became the stereotype of an African despot. Engrossing, highly readable, and as funny as it is tragic, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz assesses the acts of the villains and the heroes in this fascinating story of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Codice articolo DADAX0060934433
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