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The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer's chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply troubled colonial past and a complicated political present. Author Eli Greenbaum is a leading expert in sub-Saharan herpetology--snakes, lizards, and frogs--who brings...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Swahili
Description
Over six bloody days in June 2000, the Congolese city of Kisangani was the scene of deadly violence between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies. More than 10,000 shells exploded, killing thousands and injuring thousands more. Since then, victims of the Six-Day War have fought for recognition and compensation. The International Court of Justice has found Uganda guilty of war crimes, but the victims remain uncompensated decades later. Now, they decide to...
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St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1945, an infant left inadvertently to die in the jungles of the Belgian Congo is discovered by a young Bashilele tribesman on a mission to claim the head of an enemy. Recognized as human--despite her pale white skin and strange blue eyes--the baby is brought into the tribe and raised as its own. Young missionary Amanda Brown hears the incredible stories of a white girl living among the Bashilele headhunters. In the company of the local police chief,...
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Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Etienne is a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo with a secret fear he will never be safe. His father and brother are missing and presumed dead. After he escapes his captors, his mother decides they have lost enough. They are lucky enough to have family in Canada and are reunited with them as refugees. The story is interspersed with facts about the trauma some refugees deal with and the uncertain welcome from countries struggling...
10) A burnt-out case
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers, his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...
11) Congo dawn
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English
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As former Marine lieutenant Robin Duncan's security team tries to track down an insurgent killer in the Congo, Robin has to face a man who broke her trust years ago, and she discovers the gray areas extend farther in this jungle wilderness than she anticipated.
14) Refugee
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of a Congolese political refugee's harrowing six-year journey from the DRC to the Netherlands"--
Persecuted for his political activism, Emmanuel Mbolela left the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002. His search for a new home would take six years. In that time, Mbolela endured corrupt customs officials, duplicitous smugglers, Saharan ambushes, and untenable living conditions. Yet his account relates not only the storms of his long journey...
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Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Much of the war-torn country has largely become lawless, overrun by warlords who exploit and murder the population for their own gain. Delving into the history of the former Belgian colony, this book exposes the horror of day-to-day life in the Congo, largely precipitated by colonial exploitation and internal strife after gaining independence. It offers not only a view into the dire situation but also examines how the Western world, a part of the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"For five centuries, right up to the present, Americans and Europeans have benefited enormously from an astonishing history of exploitation of the people and natural resources of a country in the heart of Africa; the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The people of Congo are fighting back, risking their lives to resist and alter the deadly status quo. And human rights movements led by young people in the US and Europe are supporting those Congolese...
17) Special ops
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 9
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
20) Gorilla dawn
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two children captured by a band of rebel soldiers in the Congo vow to protect an orphaned baby gorilla.
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