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  Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardback) By (author) Jason Stearns

  

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  Short Description for Dancing in the Glory of MonstersIn this deeply reported book, Stearns vividly tells the story of the collapseof the Congo and the great war of Africa through the experiences of those whoengineered and perpetrated it.
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  • Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
  • Published: 05 May 2011
  • Format: Hardback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Violence In Society | Ethnic Studies | Politics & Government | African History | Military History
  • ISBN 13: 9781586489298 ISBN 10: 1586489291
  • Sales rank: 27,985

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• At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster asand was a direct consequence ofthe genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State.