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File name : Ebook in the footsteps of mr kurtz living on the brink of disaster in mobutu s congo.pdf
Author by : michela wrong
Publisher by : harper perennial
Book Descriptions michela wrong a correspondent who witnessed firsthand 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 her book assesses how belgium s king leopold the cia and the world bank all helped to bring about the disaster that is now the democratic republic of congo if in this poignant account the villains are the big vegetables les grosses legumes the fat cats who benefited from mobutu s largesse the heroes are the ordinary citizens trapped in a parody of a state living in the shadow of a disintegrating nuclear reactor where banknotes are not worth the paper they are printed on they have turned survival into an art form for all its valuable insights into africa s colonial heritage and the damage done by western intervention in the footsteps of mr kurtz is ultimately a celebration of the irrepressible human spirit
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