(Paperback)

For fans of Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost: a graphic history that tells the complex and troubled story of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(Hardback)

This book begins with a survey of Congo's early history, when diverse peoples such as the Luba, the Kuba, and the Nilotic inhabited the area, and continues by tracing the country's history through the Belgian period of colonization and the dictatorships of Mobutu and Kabila.