| congo a political tragedy: The Tragic State of the Congo Jeanne M. Haskin, 2005 In the mineral-rich, dirt-poor Congo, the promise of democratic elections now offers to ignite a glorious future for the country - or a final conflagration. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Assassination of Lumumba Ludo De Witte, 2022-10-25 The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba's personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics. |
| congo a political tragedy: Death in the Congo Emmanuel Gerard, Bruce Kuklick, 2015-02-10 Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the second half of the twentieth century. When Belgium relinquished colonial control in June 1960, a charismatic thirty-five-year-old African nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became prime minister of the new republic. Yet stability immediately broke down. A mutinous Congolese Army spread havoc, while Katanga Province in southeast Congo seceded altogether. Belgium dispatched its military to protect its citizens, and the United Nations soon intervened with its own peacekeeping troops. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, both the Soviet Union and the United States maneuvered to turn the crisis to their Cold War advantage. A coup in September, secretly aided by the UN, toppled Lumumba’s government. In January 1961, armed men drove Lumumba to a secluded corner of the Katanga bush, stood him up beside a hastily dug grave, and shot him. His rule as Africa’s first democratically elected leader had lasted ten weeks. More than fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Lumumba’s assassination still trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick pursue events through a web of international politics, revealing a tangled history in which many people—black and white, well-meaning and ruthless, African, European, and American—bear responsibility for this crime. |
| congo a political tragedy: In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism J. P. Daughton, 2021-07-20 The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. |
| congo a political tragedy: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters Jason Stearns, 2012-03-27 A meticulously researched and comprehensive (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War. |
| congo a political tragedy: Murderous Angels Conor Cruise O'Brien, 1968 |
| congo a political tragedy: A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, 2007-12-18 In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of today’s events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders. While he captures the tragedies that have repeatedly befallen Africa’s peoples, French also opens our eyes to the immense possibility that lies in Africa’s complexity, diversity, and myriad cultural strengths. The culmination of twenty-five years of passionate exploration and understanding, this is a powerful and ultimately hopeful book about a fascinating and misunderstood continent. |
| congo a political tragedy: Why Comrades Go to War Philip G. Roessler, Harry Verhoeven, 2016 An account of the AFDL's rise in 1996, crushing the dictatorship within Zaire/Congo and their subsequent collapse only months later as the Pan-Africanist alliance fell apart |
| congo a political tragedy: Consuming the Congo Peter Eichstaedt, 2011-07 Describes the conflict minerals mined in the Congo amidst armed conflict and human rights abuses including gold, diamonds, coltan, tin, and tungsten used in cell phones, computers, and other electronics. Explores the slave labor, violence, and disease killing millions of Congolese mining these resources, and offers ways one can help. |
| congo a political tragedy: Africa's World War Gerard Prunier, 2008-12-31 The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-D?sir? Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractible and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Praise for the hardcover: The most ambitious of several remarkable new books that reexamine the extraordinary tragedy of Congo and Central Africa since the Rwandan genocide of 1994. --New York Review of Books One of the first books to lay bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster. --Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Book Review Lucid, meticulously researched and incisive, Prunier's will likely become the standard account of this under-reported tragedy. --Publishers Weekly |
| congo a political tragedy: Do Not Disturb Michela Wrong, 2021-03-30 A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister. Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s assassination. |
| congo a political tragedy: A Tragedy of Democracy Greg Robinson, 2009-06-30 The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed concentration camps for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress, and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemoration and debate. Most remarkably, A Tragedy of Democracy is the first book to analyze official policy toward West Coast Japanese Americans within a North American context. Robinson studies confinement on the mainland alongside events in wartime Hawaii, where fears of Japanese Americans justified Army dictatorship, suspension of the Constitution, and the imposition of military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Japanese Americans against Canada's confinement of 22,000 citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. A Tragedy of Democracy recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the United States. Approaching Japanese confinement as a continental and international phenomenon, Robinson offers a truly kaleidoscopic understanding of its genesis and outcomes. The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed concentration camps for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress, and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemoration and debate. Most remarkably, A Tragedy of Democracy is the first book to analyze official policy toward West Coast Japanese Americans within a North American context. Robinson studies confinement on the mainland alongside events in wartime Hawaii, where fears of Japanese Americans justified Army dictatorship, suspension of the Constitution, and the imposition of military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Japanese Americans against Canada's confinement of 22,000 citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. A Tragedy of Democracy recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the United States. Approaching Japanese confinement as a continental and international phenomenon, Robinson offers a truly kaleidoscopic understanding of its genesis and outcomes. |
| congo a political tragedy: Challenge of the Congo Kwame Nkrumah, 1967 |
| congo a political tragedy: Reinventing Order in the Congo Theodore Trefon, 2013-04-04 Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa‘s second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous ‘bargaining‘ system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education. The NGO-ization of service provision is analysed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. The contributors also look at popular discourses, including street rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to ‘big men‘ such as musicians and preachers. This is urban sociology at its best - richly empirical, unjargonized, descriptive of the lives of ordinary people, and weaving into its analysis how they see and experience life. |
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| congo a political tragedy: The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms Peter Reddaway, Dmitri Glinski, 2001 Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Democratic Republic of Congo Michael Deibert, 2013-09-12 Over the past two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In this compelling book, acclaimed journalist Michael Deibert paints a picture of a nation in flux, inching towards peace but at the same time solidifying into another era of authoritarian rule under its enigmatic president, Joseph Kabila. Featuring a wealth of first-hand interviews and secondary sources, the narrative travels from war-torn villages in the country's east to the chaotic, pulsing capital of Kinshasa in order to bring us the voices of the Congolese - from impoverished gold prospectors and market women to government officials - as it explores the complicated political, ethnic and economic geography of this tattered land. A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Africa, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between, Hope and Despair sheds new light on this sprawling and often misunderstood country that has become iconic both for its great potential and dashed hopes. |
| congo a political tragedy: Crisis in the Congo F. Ngolet, 2010-12-14 This volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997 - 2001. The author examines the most recent events in this turbulent region, offering a contemporary account that is both extensive and detailed. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation Max-Landry Kassa, 2020-02-14 The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation retraces three decades of political instability during which the people of the Central African Republic suffered from several waves of violence that lead to the breakdown of the social cohesion between the different communities (first along ethnic, then along religious lines). This book is a personal and collective account of the massacres, looting and fleeing and an indictment of misgovernance, nepotism and political inequality. The consequences of which are, too often, carried by the population. Combining different literary genres, Max-Landry Kassa gives the reader an appreciation of what it is to come of age in the Central African Republic. |
| congo a political tragedy: American Tragedy David E. Kaiser, 2000 A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s. |
| congo a political tragedy: Imagining the Congo K. Dunn, 2003-05-29 Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Political Economy of Africa Vishnu Padayachee, 2010-06-10 The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that have often ignored Africa’s diversity in their rush to peddle simple nostrums of dubious merit. The book addresses the seemingly intractable economic problems of the African continent, and traces their origins. It also brings out the instances of successful economic change, and the possibilities for economic revival and renewal. As well as surveying the variety of contemporary situations, the text will provide readers with a firm grasp of the historical background to the topic. It explores issues such as: employment and poverty social policy and security structural adjustment programs and neo-liberal globalization majority rule and democratization taxation and resource mobilization. It contains a selection of country specific case studies from a range of international contributors, many of whom have lived and worked in Africa. The book will be of particular interest to higher level students in political economy, development studies, area studies (Africa) and economics in general. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Great African War Filip Reyntjens, 2009-08-24 This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling of the conflicts: the collapsed Zairian/Congolese state; the continuation of the Rwandan civil war across borders; the shifting alliances in the region; the politics of identity in Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DRC; the ineptitude of the international community; and the emergence of privatized and criminalized public spaces and economies, linked to the global economy, but largely disconnected from the state - on whose territory the entrepreneurs of insecurity function. As a complement to the existing literature, this book seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of concurrent developments in Zaire/DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda in African and international contexts. By adopting a non-chronological approach, it attempts to show the dynamics of the inter-relationships between these realms and offers a toolkit for understanding the past and future of Central Africa. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Death of Comrade President Alain Mabanckou, 2020-03-12 In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon swept away by the wind of history. In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched. Starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, Alain Mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the African continent. At a stroke Michel learns the realities of life - and how much must change for everything to stay the same. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Rebels' Hour Lieve Joris, 2010-03-22 “A compelling, blood-soaked portrait of a young Tutsi rebel who rose to become one of the leading generals in the Congolese Army.” —Details Lieve Joris has long been considered “one of the best journalists in the world” and in The Rebels’ Hour she illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely, complicated man—a rebel leader named Assani who becomes a high-ranking general in the Congolese army. As we navigate the chaos of his lawless country alongside him, the pathologically evasive Assani stands out in relief as a man who is both monstrous and sympathetic, perpetrator and victim (Libération, France). “Lieve Joris is of the caliber of Naipaul or Ryszard Kapuscinski, 50% traveler, 50% journalist, 100% writer.” —Elle (France) |
| congo a political tragedy: Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen Lisa Shannon, 2015-02-03 Driven by her family’s devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the shadow of one of Africa’s most feared militias—Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. With gunmen camped at the edge of town, Francisca is forced to face a paralyzing clash between her life in America and her family’s rapidly evaporating world—and the reality that their rush to her family’s aid may backfire. Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen weaves Francisca’s journey with stories of the family’s harrowing encounters with gunmen and tales from their past to create a vivid, illuminating portrait of a place and its people. We hear of Mama Koko’s early life as a gap-toothed beauty plotting to escape her inevitable fate of wife and motherhood; of Papa Alexander’s empire of wives, each of whom he married because she cooked and cleaned and made good coffee; and of Francisca’s idyllic childhood, when she ran barefoot through the family’s coffee plantation gorging herself on mangoes and fish that “were the size of small children.” Offering compelling testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the beauty of human connection in the darkest of times, Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen also explores what it means and requires to truly make a difference in an unjust and often violent world. |
| congo a political tragedy: Dictatorland Paul Kenyon, 2018-01-11 A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty. |
| congo a political tragedy: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz Michela Wrong, 2009-10-13 “Wholly unsentimental,” a foreign correspondent’s exploration of political corruption in Africa “gets it right . . . [a] chillingly amusing cautionary tale.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World 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. “A riveting inspection of the legacy of European colonialism in Africa” — 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 “Provocative, touching, and sensitively written . . . an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land.” —Sunday Times |
| congo a political tragedy: The Catastrophist Ronan Bennett, 2007-10-30 Living in Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo only to be near his lover, an idealistic journalist, novelist James Gillespie becomes caught up in the terror, violence, and corruption that marks that country's slide into civil war in the early 1960s. Reprint. |
| congo a political tragedy: King Leopold's Ghost Adam Hochschild, 2019-05-14 With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Trouble with the Congo Séverine Autesserre, 2010-06-14 The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003-2006). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional tensions alone. UN staff and diplomats viewed intervention at the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility. The dominant culture constructed local peacebuilding as such an unimportant, unfamiliar, and unmanageable task that neither shocking events nor resistance from select individuals could convince international actors to reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention. |
| congo a political tragedy: When Things Fell Apart Robert H. Bates, 2015-09-29 Explores Africa in the late twentieth century, focusing on the logic of political order and the foundations of the state. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche Alain Badiou, 2013-02-19 The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a politics of subtraction far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to reconcile the nature and practice of politics. This bilingual edition presents L'Incident d'Antioche in its original French and, on facing pages, an expertly executed English translation. Badiou adds a special preface, and an introduction by the scholar Kenneth Reinhard connects the play to Paul Claudel's The City, Saint Paul and the early history of the Church, and the innovative mathematical thinking of Paul Cohen. The translation includes Susan Spitzer's extensive notes clarifying allusions and quotations and hinting at Badiou's intentions. An interview with Badiou encompasses the play's settings, themes, and events, as well as his ongoing literary and conceptual experimentation on stage and off. |
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| congo a political tragedy: The Tragedy of a Generation Joshua M. Karlip, 2013-06-01 The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of a failed ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential strains of Jewish thought—Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism—and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and the Holocaust. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination Aviva Briefel, 2015-09-16 A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture. |
| congo a political tragedy: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition) John J. Mearsheimer, 2003-01-17 A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers.—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable. |
| congo a political tragedy: Scars of War, Wounds of Peace Shlomo Ben-Ami, 2007 An insightful and thorough account of the Arab-Israeli conflict ranges from the birth of Israel to the present day, told from firsthand knowledge of the major characters and events, written by a former high-ranking Israeli official. |
| congo a political tragedy: Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy David Rooney, 2007-11-15 The yearlong celebration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee provides a fitting context for the republication of the book Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy. In the lead-up to the celebration and over the course of the year, the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah will receive unprecedented public attention, official and unofficial. Kwame Nkrumah's very wide name-recognition is, paradoxically, accompanied by sketchy, often oversimplified knowledge about the events and processes of his life and times. For most of those born after independence in 1957, such knowledge does not extend much beyond who Kwame Nkrumah was and vague notions about he won us Independence. This book presents new material and new analysis, which helps to clarify aspects of the record, while advancing new perspectives. What comes across clearly throughout the book is the significant contribution of Nkrumah's vision and personality at a critical moment in the history of Africa and the Third World. He, perhaps more than any other, was able to identify, focus and catalyse the major factors and players driving the struggle for political independence in Ghana and liberation in other parts of Africa. In the process, he committed his life and work totally to a wide variety of activities and processes in Ghana, the continent and in the global Non-Aligned Movement. - Akilagpa Sawyerr Association of African Universities Accra, Ghana 10 March 2007 This is an objective study which should be read by all concerned with the history of post-colonial Africa. - Conor Cruise O'Brien Former Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Legon. David Rooney is a specialist on Ghana from Cambridge. His research for this book unearthed unpublished material in Ghana, UK, and the United States, where he had access to CIA papers. He has written extensively on the Commonwealth and modern Africa, and is the author of a biography of Sir Charles Noble Arden Clarke. |
| congo a political tragedy: Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010 Emizet F. Kisangani, 2012 Looking closely at five decades of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kisangani finds ample evidence to challenge popular paradigms on the nature of civil war. |
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Apr 11, 2023 · Provides an overview of the Republic of Congo, including key facts for this west African country.
Republic of the Congo - New World Encyclopedia
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a presidential republic. It is a former French colony of western - central Africa . It borders Gabon , Cameroon , …
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A virtual guide to the Republic of the Congo, also known as the Congo Republic, Congo-Brazzaville or just Congo. The country was until independence in 1960 part of the French colony of …
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the delicate political fabric of the region. It wasn't just a localized tragedy; it acted as a catalyst, pouring fuel onto existing tensions and igniting a wider conflict. Think of it like a single …
THE HOLOCAUST AS A PARADIGM FOR THE CONGO …
for the lesser-known tragedy in the Congo Free State. Although these two political catastrophes are set in different moments in history and dissimilar geographic locations, King Leopold's …
Education in the Republic of The Congo - JSTOR
of political chaos and civil strife prevail-ing in the unfortunate country since July 1960, the educational infrastructure of the country suffered a nearly total col-lapse. Thus, much of the …
GHANA’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER KWAME NKRUMAH …
political tragedy such as illiteracy, poverty and ignorance only through African unity. To Kwame, either Africa unit or perish. Ghana’s Pan-African policy was based on the ... During the Congo ...
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the delicate political fabric of the region. It wasn't just a localized tragedy; it acted as a catalyst, pouring fuel onto existing tensions and igniting a wider conflict. Think of it like a single …
Africas World War Congo The Rwandan Genocide And The …
the delicate political fabric of the region. It wasn't just a localized tragedy; it acted as a catalyst, pouring fuel onto existing tensions and igniting a wider conflict. Think of it like a single …
Africas World War Congo The Rwandan Genocide And The …
the delicate political fabric of the region. It wasn't just a localized tragedy; it acted as a catalyst, pouring fuel onto existing tensions and igniting a wider conflict. Think of it like a single …
THE HOLOCAUST AS A PARADIGM FOR THE CONGO …
for the lesser-known tragedy in the Congo Free State. Although these two political catastrophes are set in different moments in history and dissimilar geographic locations, King Leopold's …
Violence in the Congo - JSTOR
in the political struggle. The purpose of this article is to examine some of the cases of violence which have occurred in the Congo, and to show as far as is possible, first what really …
HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF THE PRC’S …
HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF THE PRC’S MINING PRACTICES FROM A CONGOLESE PERSPECTIVE, INCLUDING CORRUPTION AND FORCED AND CHILD …
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pitted ethnic groups against ethnic groups to preserve their political power,8 and lived in shameless luxury, while robbing their countries blind.9 5See, e.g., Rand Richards Cooper, …
Democratic Republic of Congo: Public appeal: Still under the …
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Still under the gun: More child soldiers recruited Armed groups in eastern DRC are still recruiting and using children as soldiers nearly 18 months’ after …
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Congo War (1996-1997) and the Second Congo War (1998-2003), often referred to as "Africa's World War," involved an estimated 5.4 million deaths, making it one of the deadliest conflicts …
Imperialism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness - JSTOR
Leopold's Congo undertaking, recalling that it was 'an exercise in rapacity ... presented to the public as a humanitarian enterprise'. 'The real tragedy of the missionaries of Katanga' he …
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ChildSoldiersintheDRoftheCongo 111 continuetoendurehorrificattacks,includingmurder,widespreadrape,andthe …
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Egypt, Iran, Sudan, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Sierra Leone, Angola, Georgia, Kosovo and Haiti. His most recent book is The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread De-mocracy (Just Not …
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The history of Congo since independence has been affected by the patrimonialisation of the state, the decline of the industrial economy, and a succession of conflicts, which plunged the …
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Africas World War Congo The Rwandan Genocide And Making Of A Continental Catastrophe Gerard Prunier Africa's World War Gerard Prunier,2008-12-31 The Rwandan genocide sparked …
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CONGO MILWAUKEE ANTI-COMMUNISM SCHOOLS CONCLUSION FROM TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH–KERALA, INDIA Since victories in the battle against Communism have been so …
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Instructor, Department of Political Science, the University of Iowa, Summer 1993 and Summer 1994. Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, the University of Iowa, Iowa, 1989 …
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the democratic republic of the congo: securing peace in the midst of tragedy hearing before the subcommittee on africa, global health, and human rights of the committee on foreign affairs …
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The Story of a Tragedy: How People in Haut-Katanga …
The story of a tragedy: howpeople in Haut-Katanga interpret the post-colonial history of Congo* BENJAMIN RUBBERS Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, Universiti de Liege, 7 …
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contends that “political conflicts and other socio-economic setbacks stem from ethnic differences.24 In his study on “the Rwandese political tragedy”, Wanjala Nasongo criticizes D. …
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the third-largest country in Africa, with more than 50 million inhabitants and covers a total of ... political leadership unfortunately is falling into …
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contends that “political conflicts and other socio-economic setbacks stem from ethnic differences.24 In his study on “the Rwandese political tragedy”, Wanjala Nasongo criticizes D. …
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political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both …
Reaping the Benefits of Good Governance in the Democratic …
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with adverse implications for inclusive growth and development. Centralized corruption in the DRC is well documented, but survey indicators also …
A Strategic Assessment Two Years into the Conflict - AUSA
self-rule and replacing it with a Russian partisan political leadership, and annexing a signifi-cant portion of Ukraine’s territory. To that end, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the time of …
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the delicate political fabric of the region. It wasn't just a localized tragedy; it acted as a catalyst, pouring fuel onto existing tensions and igniting a wider conflict. Think of it like a single …
Greek Tragedy Sheet 1: Greek Tragedy in its context - Centre …
When examining the question of how political Greek Tragedy was, an answer depends on our interpretation of the term ‘political’. Tragedy was not political in the sense that its goal was to …
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economic, political and social terms, since it became a part of Sudan in 1917, thus setting the stage for future conflicts (Alex de Waal Tragedy in Darfur , Boston Review , October …
Africas World War Congo The Rwandan Genocide And …
Congo War (1996-1997) and the Second Congo War (1998-2003), often referred to as "Africa's World War," involved an estimated 5.4 million deaths, making it one of the deadliest conflicts …
Edward Morel: The Black Man's Burden, 1903 - University …
imperialism. Edward Morel, a British journalist in the Belgian Congo, drew attention to the abuses of imperialism in 1903. The Congo [for a period known in modern times as Zaïre] was perhaps …
Politics and Man's Fate in Sophocles' 'Antigone' - JSTOR
264 and, for a radically different position, W. M. Calder, III, "Sophocles' Political Tragedy, Antigone," GRBS 9 (1968) 389-407, and id., "The Protagonist of Sophocles' Antigone," …
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: SECURING …
Mar 8, 2011 · the democratic republic of the congo: securing peace in the midst of tragedy hearing before the subcommittee on africa, global health, and human rights of the committee on foreign …
Crimes Against Humanity In The Congo Free State Answer …
The Legacy of Atrocity: Long-Term Impacts on the Congo The legacy of the Congo Free State’s atrocities continues to resonate today. The violence inflicted under Leopold II had long-term …
Labour Relations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An …
Congo: An Epic History of an Anti-Unionism Terrain ... concept of union–political parties’ relations, and Bulhungu and ... So, the DRC has been beset by tragedy and negative impacts on the ...
Thestoryofa tragedy:howpeople inHaut-Katangainterpretthe …
The history of Congo since independence has been affected by the patrimonialisation of the state, the decline of the industrial economy, and a succession of conflicts, which plunged the ...
Congo Uranium and the Tragedy of Hiroshima
Congo Uranium and the Tragedy of Hiroshima Mads Fleckner and John Avery University of Copenhagen, July 2005 ... Congo struggles with are of multilayered character. Violent …
The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath - UNHCR
civil war in Zaire (which was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1997).This war came to involve many other African states, most of them militarily, and became linked to …
The Continuing Process of Decolonization in the Congo: Fifty …
to reject colonial agendas but insufficient political coherence to resolve the challenges on their own. For that they needed the state. But popular control of the state apparatus was an elusive …
Human Health and Vulnerability in the Nyiragongo Volcano …
the Eastern DCR (Democratic Republic of Congo) from infectious diseases and malnutri-tion as a consequence of continuing conflict in the region.4 Goma is the base of the RCD (the Rwandan …
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CHALLENGE OF THE CONGO was first published in 1967, conflict between progressive and reactionary forces in Africa ... The Port Francqui Tragedy 156 . 15. Adoula’s Government and …
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Apr 16, 2025 · Classroom 2 3:20-3:40 James Nguyen Political Science Instability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Photography Gallery 5:00 -5:20 Emily Opalinski …
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Congo (MONUSCO) and provides an overview of political developments since my report on the implementation of the political agreement of 31 December 2016 in that country (S/2017/435) of …
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Securing Peace in the …
Securing Peace in the Midst of Tragedy Statement at Congressional Hearing on the Congo Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights Chairman Chris Smith (NJ-04) …
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Download The Shack Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity 5 5 Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and …
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identical language, but this time by King Baudouin on Congo’s Independence Day six years later, are shown in the film throwing Lumumba into a state of fury. 3 Conor Cruise O’Brien, …
