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The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960–98

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  1. Edgar O’Ballance
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Belgian Congo

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 1-13

  3. Independence and Clashing Personalities

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 14-29

  4. Lumumba the Legend: 1960–61

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 30-46

  5. ONUC versus Katanga and Others: 1961–62

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 47-63

  6. Prime Minister Tshombe

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 64-79

  7. The NLC in Retreat

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 80-94

  8. Plots, Mutiny and Revolt

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 95-107

  9. The First Invasion of Shaba: 1977

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 108-122

  10. The Second Invasion of Shaba

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 123-138

  11. The Single Party State

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 139-147

  12. Genocide in Burundi and Rwanda

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 148-162

  13. The End of the Mobutu Era

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 163-176

  14. The Democratic Republic of the Congo

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 177-189

  15. Bleak Prospects

    • Edgar O’Ballance
    Pages 190-193

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 194-205
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A fascinating account of a huge Central African country, almost completely unprepared for liberation from colonial rule in 1960 and plunged into the anarchy of factional struggles for central power, against a background of regional separatism. A UN force stepped in to prevent the mineral-rich province of Katanga from breaking away and stayed for nearly four years, after which quarrelling warlords fought for central power, or for or against separatism. In 1965, Mobutu came to power, ruling as a dictator his Single-Party State, until he was finally toppled in 1997 by a Tutsi-backed invasion force led by Kabila.

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'...a timely work that can shed some light on the ongoing conflict in that country.' - Mathurin C. Houngnikpo, African Studies Review

About the author

EDGAR O'BALLANCE served in the British and Indian armies during World War II, reaching the rank of Colonel. He worked as a journalist from 1948 to 1962 for a US Wire Agency, and since then as a freelance journalist. He has covered over 20 wars and insurgencies and written extensively on international relations, defence and strategic problems. He is a member of the IISS, RUSI, and the former Chairman of the London-based Military Commentators' Circle.

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