Patrick Marnham

The Horror

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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Jason Stearns is an American writer who has worked in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2001. In that time his contacts with the United Nations and various aid and human rights groups have made him a valued source for journalists and other visitors. In this, his first book, he sets out to give a detailed account of the political in-fighting behind the violence that has afflicted the country for the last sixteen years.

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