Congo

Non-Fiction, History & Politics, African History

David van Reybrouck (author)

Paperback Published on: 26/02/2015

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The urgent and compelling portrait of a badly known, though crucially important, part of the world

It is high time that someone write a fair history of the ex-Belgian Congo, Leopold II's lion share of the 1885 Berlin conference, which presided to the par... READ MORE

Anne@Teddington

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FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY

‘Not only deserves the description “epic”, in its true sense, but the term “masterpiece” as well’ Independent

This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world’s most critical failed nation-states: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interweaving his own family’s history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals – charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child soldiers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China – Van Reybrouck offers a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation’s history to its people.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007562930
Number of pages: 656
Weight: 450g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 42 mm