Zaire, Post Report
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
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Series of pamphlets on countries of the world; revisions issued.
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
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For more than five years, the people of Zaire have struggled to survive in a state on the brink of utter collapse. Amid growing economic disarray and infrastructural breakdown, standards of living have plummeted, moral and ethical standards have withered, and violence has risen. Political authority is almost hopelessly fragmented and discredited. The massive inflow and outflow of Hutu refugees from Rwanda has exacerbated Zaire's multifaceted predicament, a predicament that, for political and economic as well as humanitarian reasons, the international community cannot ignore. But what practical steps can and should be taken by the international community, and which actors (individual governments, multilateral organizations, or NGOs) should take them? In the search for answers to these questions, and for an accurate portrait of the extent and nature of Zaire's malaise, Minority Rights Group (USA), supported by the United States Institute of Peace and the Carnegie Corporation, initiated a project in 1995 that brought together academics, government officials, and NGO experts to consider the case of Zaire and the prospects for effective preventive diplomacy there. This two-part report presents the results of this project: part I offers a broad-ranging examination of Zaire's predicament; part II presents three suggestions for preventive action to ameliorate Zaire's problems.
Author : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789171065384
Selected bibliography p.23.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Thomas Paul Odom
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Belgium
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Author : Winsome J Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000011305
This book describes the historical setting of Zaire and focuses on economic and political developments during the Mobutu era. It examines the corrupt and closed political system, with its roots in the colonial state and precolonial political patterns.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : LeftWord Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2020-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 818749655X
Dear, dear, when the soft-hearts get hold of thing like that missionary's contribution they completely lose their tranquility they speak profanely and reproach Heaven for allowing such a find to live. Meaning me . They think it irregular. They go shuddering around, brooding over the reduction of that Congo population from 25,000,000 to 15,000,000 in the twenty years of my administration; then they burst out and call me the King with Ten Million Murders on his Soul. They call me a 'record'. - From King Leopold's Soliloquy
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Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Bob W. White
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0822389266
Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying “happy are those who sing and dance,” and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During this period Zairian popular dance music (often referred to as la rumba zaïroise) became a sort of musica franca in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But how did this privileged form of cultural expression, one primarily known for a sound of sweetness and joy, flourish under one of the continent’s most brutal authoritarian regimes? In Rumba Rules, the first ethnography of popular music in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bob W. White examines not only the economic and political conditions that brought this powerful music industry to its knees, but also the ways that popular musicians sought to remain socially relevant in a time of increasing insecurity. Drawing partly on his experiences as a member of a local dance band in the country’s capital city Kinshasa, White offers extraordinarily vivid accounts of the live music scene, including the relatively recent phenomenon of libanga, which involves shouting the names of wealthy or powerful people during performances in exchange for financial support or protection. With dynamic descriptions of how bands practiced, performed, and splintered, White highlights how the ways that power was sought and understood in Kinshasa’s popular music scene mirrored the charismatic authoritarianism of Mobutu’s rule. In Rumba Rules, Congolese speak candidly about political leadership, social mobility, and what it meant to be a bon chef (good leader) in Mobutu’s Zaire.