Death in the Congo : : Murdering Patrice Lumumba /

Death in the Congo : : Murdering Patrice Lumumba / / Emmanuel Gerard.

Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
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Gerard, Emmanuel,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 13 halftones, 6 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Maps
  • People and Places, 1960
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Congo of the Belgians
  • 2. In dependence
  • 3. The Empire Strikes Back
  • 4. The Cold War Comes to Africa
  • 5. Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN
  • 6. The Government Falls
  • 7. Mobutu
  • 8. Africans against Lumumba
  • 9. The Central Intelligence Agency
  • 10. The Return of the Belgians
  • 11. Lumumba Imperiled
  • 12. Killing Lumumba
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Essay on Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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