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  • Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Braathen, E.
    E. Braathen

    Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle...
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  • The Rebels' Hour by Joris, Lieve
    Lieve Joris

    The Rebels' Hour

    Lieve Joris has long been considered "one of the best journalists in the world" (Lib馥acute;ration, France) 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...
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  • Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: Vol I by Caillié, René
    René Caillié

    Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: Vol I

    In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as vital links in the establishment of new trade routes to the African interior. In 1822...
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  • Ugandan Society Observed by O'Connor, Kevin
    Kevin O'Connor

    Ugandan Society Observed

    Kevin O'Connor is an acclaimed newspaper columnist in Uganda. His column, "The Roving Eye", first appeared in 1994 in Sunday Vision and continues in Sunday Monitor. His philosophy is that "for the observer of human behaviour, every scene has its interest". Thoughtful, provocative and...
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  • Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence by Sacks, Ruth
    Ruth Sacks

    Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

    Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Za?e. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious...
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  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...
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  • Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons by Anyangwe, Carlson
    Carlson Anyangwe

    Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons

    There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the...
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  • American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa by Mohun, Arwen P.
    Arwen P. Mohun

    American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa

    This biography of "African explorer" Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa. Richard Dorsey Mohun spent his career circulating among the eastern United States, the cities and...
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  • South Sudan: A Slow Liberation by Thomas, Edward
    Edward Thomas

    South Sudan: A Slow Liberation

    In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the...
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  • The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean by Nicolini, Beatrice
    Beatrice Nicolini

    The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean

    The Indian Ocean was long one of the world's most important trade zones, controlled by Arab and Indian merchants. But in the 19th century, the British-French rivalry spilled over into the Indian Ocean. Pirates looted, adventurers sought their fortunes, and Italian spies and American...
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  • Vietnam War: Defining Moment for America - Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer by Dileonardo, Joseph
    Joseph Dileonardo

    Vietnam War: Defining Moment for America - Remembrances and Reflections of an Army Intelligence Officer

    Former Army Captain, Joseph W. DiLeonardo takes us on a personal journey that spans a century. You are introduced to his family and follow their lives from Italy and the "dust bowl" of Kansas to Sunnyvale, California, where Joseph and his siblings were born...
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  • African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich by Brought Alive, History
    History Brought Alive

    African History & Hoodoo: Connect to The Ancient Spirit of Africa and Explore The Timeline, Culture, Roots, Spells, & More From The World's Rich

    Explore The World of African History, Mythology & Hoodoo Journey through centuries of fascinating figures, kingdoms and events that have shaped Africa and learn all about the mystical world of HoodooIncluded in this Captivating 2 Book Collection are: African History: Explore The Amazing Timeline...
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  • Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6 by Doherty, Jacob
    Jacob Doherty

    Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability Volume 6

    Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these...
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  • The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home by Kennes, Erik
    Erik Kennes

    The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home

    Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved...
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  • Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa by Gondola, Ch Didier
    Ch Didier Gondola

    Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa

    During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive...
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  • African Geopolitics by Hugon, Philippe
    Philippe Hugon

    African Geopolitics

    For over a thousand years, foreign powers, including the Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and now Chinese, interfered in African affairs to pursue economic and political gains. In a similar way, African rulers exploited this foreign presence for their own ends. Foreigners came in...
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  • The fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The fall of the Congo Arabs

    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...
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  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs by Hinde, Sidney Langford
    Sidney Langford Hinde

    The Fall of the Congo Arabs

    A first-person account of the two-year-long combined European military campaign in central Africa aimed at removing the Arab Muslim slave-trading empire and potential Khalifa that was developing in that region. The author, a British military veteran, served as an important commander of the European-led...
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  • Revolutionary Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Untold Story by Zeilig, Leo
    Leo Zeilig

    Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story

    While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively very little attention. This book sheds new light on these...
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  • The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide by Kaufman, Andrew
    Andrew Kaufman

    The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide

    The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet's observations and encounters during...
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  • Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600-C.1960 by Austen, Ralph A.
    Ralph A. Austen

    Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers

    This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial...
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  • Grasp the Shield Firmly the Journey is Hard. A History of Luo and Bantu migrations to North Mara, (Tanzania) 1850-1950 by Siso, Zedekia Oloo
    Zedekia Oloo Siso

    Grasp the Shield Firmly the Journey is Hard. A History of Luo and Bantu migrations to North Mara, (Tanzania) 1850-1950

    This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for...
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  • Cameroon Political Story. Memories of an Authentic Eye Witness by Mbile, Nerius Namaso
    Nerius Namaso Mbile

    Cameroon Political Story. Memories of an Authentic Eye Witness

    The Cameroon Political Story is a long journey through the eyes and actions of the author himself. It is a mix between Mbile's memoirs, a bit of his biography and the Cameroon political story, heavily weighted in favour of that part of the Republic...
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  • Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda by Longman, Timothy
    Timothy Longman

    Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

    Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then...
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  • An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Iron-Smelting Practices among the Pangwa and Fipa in Tanzania by Barndon, Randi
    Randi Barndon

    An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Iron-Smelting Practices among the Pangwa and Fipa in Tanzania

    Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 61This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local concepts of metallurgy by step-by-step observations of the processes involved. Included is a description of the technology...
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  • To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré by Brody, Reed
    Reed Brody

    To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré

    What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight bloody years in power--all while enjoying full American and Western support. After Habré's overthrow,...
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  • The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Reid, Stuart A.
    Stuart A. Reid

    The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

    The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New...
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  • My Days of Sorrow and Joy in Rwanda by Kain, Betsy
    Betsy Kain

    My Days of Sorrow and Joy in Rwanda

    My Days of Sorrow and Joy in Rwanda recounts the experiences of clinical social worker Betsy Kain as she treated traumatized survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and was overwhelmed with sadness at their sufferings. But watching their recovery and helping to raise...
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  • Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Wrong, Michela
    Michela Wrong

    Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

    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...
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  • Life on the Congo by Holman Bentley, W.
    W. Holman Bentley

    Life on the Congo

    Life on the Congo, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised,...
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  • White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Williams, Susan
    Susan Williams

    White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

    A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength...
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  • Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil by Kubik, Gerhard
    Gerhard Kubik

    Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

    The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma...
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  • Mythos: The Prescient Kings by Todd, D. Baxter
    D. Baxter Todd

    Mythos: The Prescient Kings

    Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as "Pre-History" were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the "Age of Man". Throughout the ages, through...
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  • Five Years with the Congo Cannibals by Ward, Herbert
    Herbert Ward

    Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

    The dramatic first-hand account of the establishment of the Congo Free State, a private colony set up under King Leopold of Belgium to stamp out the Arab slave trade in central Africa, written by a participant in the wars and adventures of the 1890s...
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  • Can't Let Go by Tshibangu, M. D. Raphael
    M. D. Raphael Tshibangu

    Can't Let Go

    Can't Let Go is much more than a tale of rags to riches or the recounting of an immigrant's trials and tribulations. It is not just another rendition of the struggles of belonging-as a newcomer in an unfamiliar land or as a stranger in...
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  • A Different Kind of War Story by Nordstrom, Carolyn
    Carolyn Nordstrom

    A Different Kind of War Story

    A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives--mostly civilian--and completely destroyed homes, crops, hospitals, schools, and...
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  • Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda by Fujii, Lee Ann
    Lee Ann Fujii

    Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda

    In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative...
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  • Revolution in the Congo by Roberts, Dick
    Dick Roberts

    Revolution in the Congo Rev/E

    Describes the 1960 victory of Congolese peasants and workers, led by Patrice Lumumba, against Belgian colonial rule. And the role, under United Nations cover, of Washington, Brussels, and other imperialist powers in the overthrow and assassination of Lumumba. Written as the struggles for freedom...
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  • Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 by Terretta, Meredith
    Meredith Terretta

    Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960

    Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalists' petitions to the United...
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  • A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce by Copnall, James
    James Copnall

    A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

    What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was...
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  • The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History by Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges
    Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

    The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful...
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  • Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie Volume 2 by Walker, Bruce
    Bruce Walker

    Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie Volume 2

    The evil of Sinisterism, the Secular Religion of the Lie, is incompatible with the Judeo- Christian moral and philosophical system. One consequence of this is that Sinisterists try to persuade us that history shows the wrongness of Judeo-Christianity. In fact, real history, which is...
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  • Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: Case Studies from a Pandemic Context by Mare, Admire
    Admire Mare

    Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: Case Studies from a Pandemic Context

    This book critically examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated digital innovation within higher education using case studies from Africa. Imagining a future for post-pandemic higher education, it analyses the challenges and opportunities of remote teaching and learning. The book explores the structural barriers...
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  • The Cushite, Or, The Descendants Of Ham by Perry, Rufus Lewis
    Rufus Lewis Perry

    The Cushite, Or, The Descendants Of Ham

    "Perry is a splendid type of the Negro genius." -Men of Mark (1887) "Perry is considered one of the best scholars the negro race has produced." -Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia (1896) "Perry is able to offer hope for modern Cushites in the prophesied moment when...
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  • The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo by Stearns, Jason K.
    Jason K. Stearns

    The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo

    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"--a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power...
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  • Five Years with the Congo Cannibals by Ward, Herbert
    Herbert Ward

    Five Years with the Congo Cannibals

    The dramatic first-hand account of the establishment of the Congo Free State, a private colony set up under King Leopold of Belgium to stamp out the Arab slave trade in central Africa, written by a participant in the wars and adventures of the 1890s...
    $23.95
    $23.95
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  • Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa by Lee, Christopher J.
    Christopher J. Lee

    Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa

    In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa--contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia--from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum...
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  • Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928: 1868-1928 by Twaddle, Michael
    Michael Twaddle

    Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928: 1868-1928

    This is a history of the early days of Uganda. The account has an African focus because it shows the British takeover through the experiences of an extraordinary leader. "At this spot in the year 1901 the British flag was first hoisted by Semei...
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  • The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa by Parsons, Timothy H.
    Timothy H. Parsons

    The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

    This book provides a new concept framework for understanding the factors that lead soldiers to challenge civil authority in developing nations. By exploring the causes and effects of the 1964 East African army mutinies, it provides novel insights into the nature of institutional violence,...
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  • The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba by Yabili, Marcel
    Marcel Yabili

    The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba

    Congo's past is painted as a gallery of horrors! Looting of King Leopold, a precursor to Hitler and Stalin! Holocaust, hands cut off, whipping, red rubber, forced labour, etc. In fact, all these atrocities have been fueled by interested foreigners.For the first time, a...
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