Culture and Customs of the Congo (Culture and Customs of Africa)

Culture and Customs of the Congo (Culture and Customs of Africa)
Tshilemale Mukenge (Author)

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Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, continues to struggle with socioeconomic and political development. Culture and Customs of the Congo provides the full context of traditional culture and modern practices against a backdrop of a turbulent history. The volume opens up a land and peoples little known in the United States. Written expressly to meet the needs of students and the general audience, the work will inform about the geography, economy, political history, and history from the slave trade to dictatorship; ancestral religions and inroads of western faiths; ancestral literary heritage and communication; art, architecture, and housing; diet and dress; marriage, family, and women; lifestyles and life events, and traditional and modern music and dance.

Congolese society comprises hundreds of ethnic groups, such as the Luba, the Kongo, and the Kuba. The countryside is largely based on the hunting and gathering, herding, and farming lifestyles. The city is marked by lifestyles reflecting the prevalence of small business activities and increasing cultural sycretism of customs from different parts of the Congo and Western imports. Mukenge's narrative gives the diverse perspectives of their cultures with their fascinating juxtapositions to our familiar western ways. Examples of this are found in the Religion and Worldview chapter, which discusses ancestral religions, the spirits of the land, and supernatural power practitioners. The Literature chapter covers verbal competition and game songs. Congolese cuisine is based on starches such as the cassava root, the corn, and the plantain; green vegetables, insects, fish and, to a lesser extent, meat. Other chapters cover topics from the distinct Congolese dress and symbolic adornments, all-important family lines, to ceremonial music and dance. A chronology and glossary are added value.

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• Published on: 2001-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .59" w x 5.98" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 232 pages

Ota Benga

Ota Benga
Phillips Verner Bradford (Author)
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Republic of the Congo

Less than a century ago, a human being was put on display in New York's Bronx Zoo. This is the astonishing and appalling story of Ota Benga's odyssey in savage turn-of-the-century America. A fascinating glimpse at the financial greed, religious arrogance, and racism of America's past. Photo insert.

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• Published on: 1993-09-01
• Released on: 1993-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

The Quest for Therapy: Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)

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The Quest for Therapy: Medical Pluralism in Lower Zaire (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
by John M. Janzen, M.D. William Arkinstall M.D., Charles Leslie

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In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?
In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking, illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends, asociates, and specialized practitioners.
From the Preface:
This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how medical clients of one region of Lower Zaire diagnose illness, select therapies, and evaluate treatments, a process we call "therapy management." The book is intended to clarify a phenomenon of which central African clients have long been cognizant, namely, that medical systems are used in combination. Our study is aimed primarily at readers interested in the practical issues of medical decision-making in an African country, the cultural content of symptoms, and the dynamics of medical pluralism, that is, the existence in a single society of differently designed and conceived medical systems.

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• Published on: 1982-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .75" w x 5.75" l, .82 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

Naming Colonialism: History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 (Africa and the Diaspora)

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Naming Colonialism: History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 (Africa and the Diaspora)
by Osumaka Likaka
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What’s in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agents allowed Africans to observe Westerners’ physical appearances, behavior, and cultural practices at close range—often resulting in subtle yet trenchant critiques. By naming Europeans, Africans turned a universal practice into a local mnemonic system, recording and preserving the village’s understanding of colonialism in the form of pithy verbal expressions that were easy to remember and transmit across localities, regions, and generations.
    Methodologically innovative, Naming Colonialism advances a new approach that shows how a cultural process—the naming of Europeans—can provide a point of entry into economic and social histories. Drawing on archival documents and oral interviews, Likaka encounters and analyzes a welter of coded fragments. The vivid epithets Congolese gave to rubber company agents—“the home burner,” “Leopard,” “Beat, beat,” “The hippopotamus-hide whip”—clearly conveyed the violence that underpinned colonial extractive economies. Other names were subtler, hinting at derogatory meaning by way of riddles, metaphors, or symbols to which the Europeans were oblivious. Africans thus emerge from this study as autonomous actors whose capacity to observe, categorize, and evaluate reverses our usual optic, providing a critical window on Central African colonialism in its local and regional dimensions.

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• Published on: 2009-12-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .55" w x 5.98" l, .71 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo (Text Only)

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In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo (Text Only)
Michela Wrong (Author)
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Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness

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Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness
Michael Hoyt (Author), Monteagle Stearns (Introduction)
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Taken hostage by Congolese rebels in 1964, Hoyt provides an inside account of the seizure of the U.S. Consulate staff and their 111 days of captivity. Presented in cooperation with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.

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• Published on: 2000-11
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• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 264 pages

The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire

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The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire
by Howard Adelman, Astri Suhrke

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The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.

Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.

The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.

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• Published on: 2000-12-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .87" w x 5.98" l, 1.29 pounds
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• 414 pages

A Questao do Zaire: Portugal e a Escravatura

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A Questao do Zaire: Portugal e a Escravatura
by Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa Commissao Nacional Africana

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Republic of the Congo

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

• Rank: #260864 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 26 pages

The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

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The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
by Maryinez Lyons
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The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of western bio-medicine as a central feature of their 'gift' to Africans. By 1930, however, it was clear that some features of their 'civilising mission' were in fact closely connected to the poor health of many of the Congolese. The Europeans had indeed brought scientific enquiry and western bio-medicine; but they had also introduced a harsh, repressive political system which, coupled with a ruthlessly exploitative economic system, led to the introduction of new diseases while already-existing diseases were exacerbated and spread. Tropical, or 'colonial', medicine was a new field at the turn of the century, linked closely both to European expansionism and human trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. In 1901 a devastating epidemic had erupted in Uganda, killing well over 250,000 people.

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• Published on: 2002-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .79" w x 5.98" l, 1.15 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

War and Peace in Zaire-Congo: Analyzing and Evaluating Intervention, 1996-1997

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War and Peace in Zaire-Congo: Analyzing and Evaluating Intervention, 1996-1997
by Howard Adelman, Govind C. Rao

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Republic of the Congo

The 1994 Rwandan Genocide continues to have serious repercussions for peace and stability in the Great Lakes region of Africa. As we recently saw, the key element of the July 30, 2002 Pretoria peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was the latter's commitment to disarm and repatriate Rwandan Hutu militants. This volume continues where most books on the region leave off. The contributors make the connection between the Rwandan Genocide and the continuation of the conflict onto the territory of Zaire which finally culminated in the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko's kleptocratic regime. The reasons for war and the missed opportunities for peacemaking turned on the issue of separating the approximately million refugees from the armed militias and former Rwandan Army (ex-FAR) in Eastern Zaire. At the center of the conflict over the refugee camps were the questions: Who are refugees? Can they be repatriated against their wishes? Who are combatants? Who is responsible for separating each from the other? Is this an example of justifiable humanitarian intervention? The chapters in this volume cover the many dimensions of the conflict, giving the reader a comprehensive understanding of an unprecedented continent-wide war which drew in combatants from at least eight neighboring African countries and spanned the breadth of central Africa. By examining the question of how to best handle the problem of refugee warriors, which has long been a source of instability in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, a number of distinguished contributors—some of whom were on the ground as the events were unfolding—lay out the complex roots of the problem in this important volume.

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• Published on: 2004-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Brazza, A Life for Africa

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Brazza, A Life for Africa
by Maria Petringa
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Republic of the Congo

This fascinating true-life adventure takes the reader on a journey from Papal Rome, to Belle-Epoque Paris, to French Colonial Africa.

Brazza, A Life for Africa tells the story of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, a European explorer, colonial governor, and human rights investigator. He gave his life trying to expose the abuse and torture of enslaved African workers in the rubber-producing regions of Congo, Gabon, and elsewhere in equatorial Africa.

From Brazza's early explorations, his diplomatic encounters with African tribal chiefs, and his studies of the daily life, flora, and fauna of central Africa, to his courageous investigation of human rights abuses, Brazza, A Life for Africa contains numerous parallels to today's events.  The 1904 Toqué-Gaud torture scandal in central Africa was eerily similar to the Abu Ghraib scandal in 2004.

• Rank: #158407 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x 5.98" w x .61" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Living With Africa

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Living With Africa
by Jan M. Vansina

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Republic of the Congo

In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars.
    "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral tradition using the same methods he had learned for interpreting medieval dirges was a historiographical breakthrough, and his first book, Oral Tradition as History, is considered the seminal work that gave the study of precolonial African history both the scholarly justification and the self-confidence it had been lacking.
    Living with Africa is a compelling memoir of Vansina's life and career on three continents, interwoven with the story of African history as a scholarly specialty. In the background of his narrative are the collapse of colonialism in Africa and the emergence of newly independent nations; in the foreground are the first conferences on African history, the founding of journals and departments, and the efforts of Africans to establish a history curriculum for the schools in their new nations.

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• Published on: 1994-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .67" w x 5.98" l, .99 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages

Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire

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Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
by Osumaka Likaka
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This masterful social and economic history of rural Zaire examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton cultivation in central Africa from 1917 to 1960. Osumaka Likaka recreates daily life inside the colonial cotton regime. He shows that, to ensure widespread cotton production and to overcome continued peasant resistance, the colonial state and the cotton companies found it necessary to augment their use of threats and force with efforts to win the cooperation of the peasant farmers, through structural reforms, economic incentives, and propaganda exploiting African popular culture. As local plots of food crops grown by individual households gave way to commercial fields of cotton, a whole host of social, economic, and environmental changes followed. Likaka reveals how food shortages and competition for labor were endemic, forests were cleared, social stratification increased, married women lost their traditional control of agricultural production, and communities became impoverished while local chiefs enlarged their power and prosperity. Likaka documents how the cotton regime promoted its cause through agricultural exhibits, cotton festivals, films, and plays, as well as by raising producer prices and decreasing tax rates. He also shows how the peasant laborers in turn resisted regimented agricultural production by migrating, fleeing the farms for the bush, or sabotaging plantings by surreptitiously boiling cotton seeds. Small farmers who had received appallingly low prices from the cotton companies resisted by stealing back their cotton by night from the warehouses, to resell it in the morning. Likaka draws on interviews with more than fifty informants in Zaire and Belgium and reviews an impressive array of archival materials, from court records to comic books. In uncovering the tumultuous economic and social consequences of the cotton regime and by emphasizing its effects on social institutions, Likaka enriches historical understanding of African agriculture and development. Riveting. A major social and economic history of the Zairian countryside.Allen F. Isaacman, University of Minnesota

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• Published on: 1997-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .51" w x 5.98" l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 210 pages

Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende

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Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende
by Z. S. Strother
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Who invents masks, and why? Such questions have rarely been asked, due to stereotypes of anonymous African artists locked into the reproduction of "traditional" models of representation. Rather than accept this view of African art as timeless and unchanging, Z. S. Strother spent nearly three years in Zaire studying Pende sculpture. Her research reveals the rich history and lively contemporary practice of Central Pende masquerade. She describes the intensive collaboration among sculptors and dancers that is crucial to inventing masks. Sculptors revealed that a central theme in their work is the representation of perceived differences between men and women. Far from being unchanging, Pende masquerades promote unceasing innovation within genres and invention of new genres. Inventing Masks demonstrates, through first hand accounts and lavish illustrations, how Central Pende masquerading is a contemporary art form fully responsive to twentieth-century experience.

"Its presentation, its exceptionally lively style, the perfection of its illustrations make this a stunning book, perfectly fitting for the study of a performing art and its content is indeed seminal. . . . A breakthrough."—Jan Vansina, African Studies Review

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• Published on: 1999-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.89" h x .83" w x 10.04" l, 1.96 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo (Historical Dictionaries of Africa)

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Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo (Historical Dictionaries of Africa)
by John F. Clark, Samuel Decalo

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Republic of the Congo

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo provides a comprehensive set of references on the country’s history, politics, economics, and culture. It traces the careers of the country’s leading personalities into the era following the democratic experiment of the 1990s. It updates the country’s social, economic, and political evolution through the first decade of the 21st century.

Clark and Decalo provide a snapshot of the Republic of the Congo through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and the dictionary section of over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, leading political figures, institutions, economic enterprises, ethnic communities, and cultural features. It provides information on many aspects of Congolese society, culture, and society not available on any web-based source or in any other publication. It is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of the Congo.

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• Published on: 2012-08-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 570 pages

Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times

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Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times
by Phyllis M. Martin

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Republic of the Congo

Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to the present. Phyllis M. Martin emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they individually and collectively made sense of their place within the Church. Martin traces women's early resistance to missionary overtures and church schools, and follows their relationship with missionary Sisters, their later embrace of church-sponsored education, their participation in popular Catholicism, and the formation of women's fraternities. As they drew together as mothers and sisters, Martin asserts, women began to affirm their place in a male-dominated institution. Covering more than a century of often turbulent times, this rich and readable book examines an era of far-reaching social change in Central Africa.

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• Published on: 2009-02-06
• Released on: 2009-02-06
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .59" w x 6.10" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Patrice Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life&Times)

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Patrice Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life&Times;)
by Leo Zeilig
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Republic of the Congo

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography about a topical historical figure - no competing title

• Rank: #178353 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.76" h x 5.00" w x .0" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

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No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
by Redmond O'Hanlon
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Republic of the Congo

Lit with humor, full of African birdsong and told with great narrative force, No Mercy is the magnum opus of "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language,"  as Bill Bryson wrote in Outside, "and certainly the most daring."  

Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer--an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave decency--he enters the unmapped swamp-forests of the People's Republic of the Congo, in search of a dinosaur rumored to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake.

The flora and fauna of the Congo are unrivalled, and with matchless passion O'Hanlon describes scores of rare and fascinating animals: eagles and parrots, gorillas and chimpanzees, swamp antelope and forest elephants. But as he was repeatedly warned, the night belongs to Africa, and threats both natural (cobras, crocodiles, lethal insects) and supernatural (from all-powerful sorcerers to Samalé, a beast whose three-clawed hands rip you across the back) make this a saga of much fear and trembling. Omnipresent too are ecological depredations, political and tribal brutality, terrible illness and unnecessary suffering among the forest pygmies, and an appalling waste of human life throughout this little-explored region.

An elegant, disturbing and deeply compassionate evocation of a vanishing world, extraordinary in its depth, scope and range of characters, No Mercy is destined to become a landmark work of travel, adventure and natural history. A quest for the meaning of magic and the purpose of religion, and a celebration of the comforts and mysteries of science, it is also--and above all--a powerful guide to the humanity that prevails even in the very heart of darkness.

• Rank: #646787 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-06
• Released on: 1997-05-06
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 461 pages

The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo

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Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal.

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• Published on: 2005-07-25
• Original language: English
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• 320 pages

Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)

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