Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. This conflict devastated the country and is sometimes referred to as the 'African world war' because it involved nine African nations and twenty armed groups. PublicAffairs 400 pages 28.99 and £18.99. This volume presents an account of the wars in the African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 1996-2003. Chronicle of death ignored Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War in Africa. 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 as-and was a direct consequence of-the genocide in neighboring Rwanda.
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