Books set in messages.CONGO,_DEMOCRATIC_REPUBLIC_OF_TRANSLATION_KEY (2)
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters : The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns EN
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Country: Africa / 
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Description:
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting a... continue
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Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila EN
Country: Africa / Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Description:
Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. Tram 83 is his award-winning and raved-about deb... continue
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