From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History of a People traces...

A whistlestop digest of democracy's 3,000-year history, a surgical analysis of what's going wrong and an ingenious remedy. von Reybrouck, David van

An epic history of one of the world's most devastated countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ranges from the slave trade and ivory boom to Belgian colonisation, Mobutu's brutal rule and the civil war over natural resources that...

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...