Intro -- About the author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Prologue: the killing fields -- 1 Kingdom of Kongo to first Congo Republic -- 2 Fire in his wake -- The rise and decline of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu -- Slouching towards the abyss -- The Third Republic: old wine in a new bottle -- 3 The great Congo wars -- The First Congo War -- The Second Congo War -- The guns of Kisangani -- Entrances and exits -- 4 Enter his father's house -- 5 One hundred per cent Congolese -- 6 Glittering demons -- The armies -- The businessmen -- The cowboys arrive -- Enter the People's Republic -- The war in the east -- 7 Threats from within and without -- Searching for a lost empire -- The ghost of Joseph Kony -- The battle for North Kivu -- 8 A false peace -- 9 Elections, encore -- 10 Rebellion after rebellion -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Zed Books.

A remarkable and in-depth portrait of a war-torn nation seldom far from the headlines, featuring a wealth of first-hand interviews.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.