Mobutu Or Chaos

Author : Michael G. Schatzberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobutu Or Chaos? written by Michael G. Schatzberg and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobutu or Chaos? is the latest product of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's study on friendly tyrants. Like its predecessors, it tackles the thorny question of how to deal with the pro-U.S. authoritarian regimes that have bedeviled U.S. foreign policy for the better part of forty years. The book chronicles the U.S. relations with Mobutu from their beginnings in the sixties when support for the ruler was justifiable by higher goals, through to the present when the degeneration of his regime into incompetence and severe brutality raises new questions both practical and moral as to the justification of continued relations. This volume is important to all those interested in Zaire, Africa, and the general workings of U.S. foreign policy. Co-published with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Author : Michael G. Schatzberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910191111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobutu Or Chaos written by Michael G. Schatzberg and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ending Zaire's 'Eternal Crisis' and Positions for Advantage from Mobutu's Fall written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words "crisis" and "chaos" have been so closely associated with central African giant Zaire for so long that they form part of the country's informal appellation. The literature about Zaire, from V.S. Naipul's 1981 book, A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa to Michael Schatzberg's 1991 tract, Mobutu or Chaos is the literature of despair and despondency. So many observers, in fact, have been writing in increasingly alarming terms of the Zairian tragedy for so long that it is all but impossible to find a positive assessment of the country's prospects. But Zaire is too important for Africa's future -- and, in the long term, given its size, riches and population, for the world's future -- for us to fail to make the necessary intellectual and economic investment now to ensure a stable, prosperous future for the country. What is more, it is the contention of this paper that the power or powers which move to take up Zaire's cause stand to gain a great deal: a favored economic and strategic position in Africa's richly endowed center, and the sort of sense of humanitarian accomplishment that all modern democratic powers appear to crave.

Author : Michela Wrong
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061863610
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz written by Michela Wrong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was pauperized, he plundered the country's copper and diamond resources, downing pink champagne in his jungle palace like some modern-day reincarnation of Joseph Conrad's crazed station manager. Michela Wrong, a correspondent who witnessed Mobutu's last days, traces the rise and fall of the idealistic young journalist who became the stereotype of an African despot. Engrossing, highly readable, and as funny as it is tragic, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz assesses the acts of the villains and the heroes in this fascinating story of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Author : George B. N. Ayittey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333772348
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa in Chaos written by George B. N. Ayittey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a follow-up to his ground-breaking "Africa Betrayed, " George Ayittey takes up the plight of Africa at the end of the twentieth century. Former UN Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali once said that Africa was in danger of becoming the lost continent and, on this point, Ayittey thoroughly agrees. As he begins to see countries like Nigeria go over the edge of economic and social disaster, Ayittey uses his formidable powers of analysis to look at the political economy of Africa, the incursion of foreign powers and the relationship of Africa to the world market. He contrasts the indigenous systems of government that existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans with the colonial and post-colonial systems that were forced on the country and the effect these systems have had on Africa s inability to move forward. Ayittey s view is dark and, as always, his stinging conclusions will infuriate some and invigorate others. Certain to create controversy, "Africa in Chaos" is a must-read for fans of Ayittey s earlier work as well as anyone interested in the world economic scene today. "

Author : Lynne Duke
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307423700
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandela, Mobutu, and Me written by Lynne Duke and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and horrors. For four years as her newspaper's Johannesburg bureau chief, Lynne Duke cut a rare figure as a black American woman foreign correspondent as she raced from story to story in numerous countries of central and southern Africa. From the battle zones of Congo-Zaire to the quest for truth and reconciliation in South Africa; from the teeming displaced person’s camps of Angola and the killing field of the Rwanda genocide to the calming Indian Ocean shores of Mozambique. She interviewed heads of state, captains of industry, activists, tribal leaders, medicine men and women, mercenaries, rebels, refugees, and ordinary, hardworking people. And it is they, the ordinary people of Africa, who fueled the hope and affection that drove Duke’s reporting. The nobility of the ordinary African struggles, so often absent from accounts of the continent, is at the heart of Duke’s searing story. MANDELA, MOBUTU, AND ME is a richly detailed, clear-eyed account of the hard realities Duke discovered, including the devastation wrought by ruthless, rapacious dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor, Laurent Kabila, in the Congo, and appalling indifference of Europeans and Americans to the legacy of their own exploitation of the continent and its people. But Duke also records with admiration the visionary leadership and personal style of Nelson Mandela in south Africa as he led his country’s inspiring transition from apartheid in the twilight of his incredible life. Whether it was touring underground gold and copper mines, learning to carry water on her head, filing stories by flashlight or dodging gunmen, Duke’s tour of Africa reveals not only the spirit and travails of an amazing but troubled continent -- it also explores the heart and fearlessness of a dedicated journalist.

Author : Sean Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Tyrant written by Sean Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the 30-year relationship between the US and Mobutu.

Author : Houchang E. Chehabi
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856945
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultanistic Regimes written by Houchang E. Chehabi and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-06-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritarian governments are often based on raw power sustained by fear of punishment and hope of reward. This text identifies common characteristics of such regimes, comparing them to totalitarian and authoritarian forms of government, and tracing common patterns for their genesis and demise.

Author : Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135861501
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System written by Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobutu's political system, inaugurated in 1965 and lasting more than three decades, met all the characteristics of totalitarianism. This study shows that the failures and misdeeds of Mobutu's system were clear evidence that it lacked an African-centred vision and did not put the interests of the African people of Congo (formerly Zaire) at the centre of this political project. In this study Mobutu's political actions in the 1990s - mostly as they related to the National Sovereign Conference - are critically analyzed and found to be a deliberate attempt to obstruct the momentum of democracy for the African people of Congo. From an Afro centric standpoint, this obstruction is evidence of Mobutu's attempt to impede the search for harmony and peace by the Zairian people, and to reject the African-centred truth that without Ma'at (harmony) there is no understanding and no possible restoration of balance. Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System will be of interest to students and scholars of ethnic studies, political science and international relations.

Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299101134
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State written by Crawford Young and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 1985 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zaire, apparently strong and stable under Presdident Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new african state strategically located in Central Africa and rich in mineral resources, did this happen? How did the Zairian state become a “parasitic predator” upon its own people?