Death in the Congo
Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. Yet stability immediately broke down. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the… Celý popis ↓
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Death in the Congo
Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. Yet stability immediately broke down. 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 second half of the twentieth century.When Belgium relinquished colonial control in June 1960, a charismatic thirty-five-year-old African nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became prime minister of the new republic.
Belgium dispatched its military to protect its citizens, and the United Nations soon intervened with its own peacekeeping troops. A mutinous Congolese Army spread havoc, while Katanga Province in southeast Congo seceded altogether. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, both the Soviet Union and the United States maneuvered to turn the crisis
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