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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The kingdom of Kazembe The kingdom of Kazembe Giacomo Macola "This is the first full-length history of the kingdom of Kazembe, one of the principal and most enduring components of the Lunda 'commonwealth'. Unlike many kindred monographs, the book examines both… OL10150616W
Blood river Blood river Tim Butcher The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehic… OL15742370W
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 Guy Vanthemsche "While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have e… OL16319001W
King Leopold's ghost King Leopold's ghost Adam Hochschild In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocid… OL1869541W
The troubled heart of Africa The troubled heart of Africa Robert B. Edgerton "The Troubled Heart of Africa is the first book to give a complete history of the Congo, filling in the blanks before the advent of Henry Stanley, David Livingstone, King Leopold, and other figures, … OL2005774W
Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa Christian P. Scherrer Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda may have resulted in the murder of a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu, while t… OL2178705W
Black Livingstone Black Livingstone Pagan Kennedy "A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregat… OL2645883W
The African dream The African dream Che Guevara,Aleida Guevara,Aleida Guevara March,Che Guevara Che Guevara Studies Center Le journal du Che durant son expédition au Congo en 1965. Il raconte l'échec de l'intervention internationaliste de Cuba contre le régime mis en place par les puissances coloniales. Analyse lucide et… OL63426W