Congo In The Sixties

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 9987160492
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congo in The Sixties written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author looks at the former Belgian Congo during the turbulent sixties. He also looks at the events that followed, including American involvement, in the bleeding heart of Africa. Mercenaries from apartheid South Africa were also some of the most important players on the Congo scene during that period. The author also looks at the role a number of African countries such as Tanzania played in the Congo to help the pro-Lumumbist nationalist forces during that critical period in the history of the continent as colonial rule was coming to an end. Another important player on the Congo scene was Che Guevara together with a number of Cuban troops who entered Congo through Tanzania. Tanzania served as a conduit and as a rear base for them during their Congo mission. The author takes an in-depth look at the role of Che Guevara and the Cubans during the Congo crisis and at a number of other events which unfolded during that period. The Congo crisis was one of the most important political developments in the history of post-colonial Africa. And its impact is still felt today as the country continues to suffer from years of abuse and neglect, including external intervention, a fate it has endured since the sixties.

Author : Lise Namikas
Publisher : Cold War International History
ISBN 13 : 9780804796804
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battleground Africa written by Lise Namikas and published by Cold War International History. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains with superb clarity the complex web of allies, clients, and neutral states influencing U.S.-Soviet competition. Unlike any other work, Battleground Africa looks at events leading up to independence, then considers the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the series of U.N.-supported constitutional negotiations, and the crises of 1964 and 1965. Finding that the U.S. and the USSR each wanted to avoid a major confrontation, but also misunderstood its opponent's goals and wanted to avoid looking weak or losing its political standing in Africa, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.

Author : Peter Abbott
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern African Wars (2) written by Peter Abbott and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1988-07-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal is a small country, but for many years it possessed the world's third largest empire; and its armed forces deserve to be better known than they are in the English-speaking world. Fortunately, the British co-author was able to meet a Portuguese colleague who was not only an authority on Portuguese military history and uniforms, but who had also served in Mocambique himself. A collaborative venture seemed the best way of providing the kind of 'hard' information about Portuguese weapons, organisation, uniforms and insignia that has been lacking until now.

Author : F. R. Metrowich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa in the Sixties written by F. R. Metrowich and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Abi-Saab
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United Nations Operation in the Congo, 1960-1964 written by Georges Abi-Saab and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book ... attempts to trace the role of law in influencing the decisions taken in a situation of appalling complexity.""--Back cover.

Author : Dick Roberts
Publisher : Young Socialist Pamphlet
ISBN 13 : 9780873489355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution in the Congo written by Dick Roberts and published by Young Socialist Pamphlet. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 unfolded there at the beginning of the 1960s. Photos.

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846826566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo written by Michael Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback! In 1961, Irish UN peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defense Forces' first experience of active service since 1923. Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien headed the UN mission in Katanga. Former chief of staff of the defense forces, Lt.Gen. Sean MacEoin, was in overall command of UN troops in the Congo. When Irish units suffered casualties and men were taken prisoner as the fighting in Katanga continued, the crisis facing Taoiseach Sean Lemass became the most delicate and dangerous chapter in Ireland's foreign relations since 1945. Based on a first-hand account of the fighting by an Irish cavalry officer, previously unseen UN archives, and the papers of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, this book covers 18 critical months, from July 1960 to December 1961, which almost tore the UN apart and which brought the realities of UN membership to Ireland. This book is an Irish diplomatic and military perspective on a defining moment in the history of the United Nations, the Cold War, and modern Africa. Author Commandant (ret.) Art Magennis served with the Irish Defence Forces from 1940 to 1979. He undertook two tours of duty in Congo and was second-in-command of the 35th Battalion's Armoured Car Group in Elisabethville, Katanga, in 1961. [Subject: History, Military History, United Nations, Irish Studies, African Studies]

Author : David Van Reybrouck
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062200135
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congo written by David Van Reybrouck and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck’s rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Epic in scope yet eminently readable, penetrating and deeply moving, David van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the fate of one of the world's most critical, failed nation-states, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Van Reybrouck takes us through several hundred years of history, bringing some of the most dramatic episodes in Congolese history. Here are the people and events that have impinged the Congo's development—from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley to the tragic regime of King Leopold II; from global indignation to Belgian colonialism; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's brutal rule; and from the world famous Rumble in the Jungle to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today. Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals—charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, the elderly, female merchant smugglers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China—to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation's history to its people.

Author : Jeanne M. Haskin
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875864163
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic State of the Congo written by Jeanne M. Haskin and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mineral-rich, dirt-poor Congo, the promise of democratic elections now offers to ignite a glorious future for the country - or a final conflagration.

Author : Daniel Tödt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110709309
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lumumba Generation written by Daniel Tödt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did the Congolese elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book seeks to enrich our understanding of the political and cultural processes culminating in the tumultuous decolonization of the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of an African bourgeoisie, the book illuminates the so-called évolués’ social worlds, cultural self-representations, daily life and political struggles. https://youtu.be/c8ybPCi80dc