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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.
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Politics and government, Political corruption, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Politics, History, Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-, Dictators, Mobutu sese seko, 1930-1997, Congo (democratic republic), social conditions, Congo (democratic republic), politics and government, Social conditionsPeople
Michela Wrong (1961-), Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-), Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-1997)Places
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1960-1997, 1997-, 20th centuryEdition | Availability |
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
2007, HarperCollins
Electronic resource
in English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
May 28, 2002, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
May 28, 2002, Harper Perennial
in English
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In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu's Congo
2001, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
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In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in the Congo
2000, Fourth Estate
in English
1841154210 9781841154213
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.
"Originally published in 2000 in Great Britain by Fourth Estate Limited"--T.p. verso.
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