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The Dialectics Of Oppression In Zaire
The Dialectics Of Oppression In Zaire
By Michael G. Schatzberg
Indiana University Press, 1988, 193 pp.

Fifty years hence, this book will likely be regarded as a particularly illuminating explanation of how things got so bad in late twentieth-century Zaïre. Although its overview of the mal Zaïreois goes over ground very familiar to present-day observers, its vast assemblage of detail on the workings of Mobutisme at the local level makes this work a truly authoritative source.

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