Africa's broken heart : Congo, the land the world forgot
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- Author
- McCullum, Hugh (Hugh Brecken), 1931-2008
- Publication Date
- c2006
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- DT 644 M33 2006
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Publisher
- WCC Publications
- Publication Date
- c2006
- Physical Description
- xxii, 94 p. : map ; 21 x 12 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Hugh McCullum".
- "The day that the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo voted, on 30 July 2006, marked the most significant election held in Africa since the 1994 balloting in South Africa at the end of that nation's apartheid regime. Like South Africans, Congolese voted in their millions, walking up to 50 kilometres each way to the polling stations. The election brought to a close 130 years of foreign invasions, colonialism, exploitation of vast mineral wealth, dictatorship and the consequences of two recent wars that cost 4.3 million lives in just over five years, the most deadly conflict since World War II. Few in the rest of the world were aware of these conditions. The western media largely ignored this region, while the international community and the African contintent seemed helpless to stop the destruction. Civilians, especially women and children, made up the majority of victims". -- back cover.
- Contents: Map and description -- Foreword dated November 2006 -- Prologue -- The Black Messiah: Patrice Lumumba -- Les Pillages: Joseph Mobutu -- A Maoist with Commercial Instincts: Laurent Kabila -- Beyond the Bullets and the Blades: Women and Children -- Profits of War: Fat Cats Living in Kinshasa -- The Churches: The Congo Belongs to Us -- Elections 2006: Winners and Losers -- Epilogue: To Our Beloved Sisters and Brothers of the Congo dated July 2006 / Samuel Kobia.
- Epilogue "This is an abbreviated version of the pastoral letter sent by Dr. Kobia to the people of the Congo and the member churches in July 2006, shortly before Congo's first election in over 40 years". -- p. [89].
- OTCH Note: Author is a Canadian journalist.
- Series
- Risk book series ; 115
- Added Entry
- World Council of Churches
- Kobia, Samuel, 1947-
- Subjects
- Atrocities - Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) - History
- Congo (Democratic Republic) - Politics and government
- Congo (Democratic Republic) - Social conditions
- Congo (Democratic Republic) - Church History
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961
- Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-1997
- Kabila, Laurent-Desire, 1939-2001
- Kabila, Joseph, 1971-
- ISBN
- 2-8254-1506-1
- Call Number
- DT 644 M33 2006
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)