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Genocide in the Congo (Zaire): In the Name of Bill Clinton, and of the Paris Club, and of the Mining Conglomerates, So it is!

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I purchased this book as research for a paper on genocide in the Congo, and quickly discovered there was hardly any information whatsoever - instead, each page is a photograph with one or two sentences underneath. What facts were given were strewn amongst run-on sentences, spelling errors, and horrific grammar.

This book is filled with photographs of corpses, dismembered arms and legs, and so on. While this is a legitimate aspect of the mass murders that took place in the Congo, it would have been most helpful if the book had provided the information the title promised - the links between the genocide and President Clinton, the Paris Club, etc.

I had no intention of purchasing a picture book - I could have read Time Magazine to obtain photographs and propaganda if I was after such drivel. The only reason I gave this book one star is no stars was not an option.

There's not a lot I can say beyond the title of this review. From reading the description of the book I expected to learn something about how the foreign policies of various countries combined with the poor leadership in the DR Congo to destroy the country. It's hard to find any good books in English on Francophone African countries, and I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book. Imagine my disappointment when I got a small book that was poorly designed and pretty much 100% content-free. There are lots of pictures though. If you're looking for pictures covering the various tragedies that have befallen the Congo this is the book for you. If you like reading poorly edited rants, this might be the book for you. If you actually want to read and learn... invest your [money] in a better book.

There's not a lot I can say beyond the title of this review. From reading the description of the book I expected to learn something about how the foreign policies of various countries combined with the poor leadership in the DR Congo to destroy the country. Instead I got a small book that was poorly designed and pretty much 100% content-free. There are lots of pictures though. If you're looking for pictures covering the various tragedies that have befallen the Congo this is the book for you. If you like reading poorly edited rants and pages of long, mundane lists this might be the book for you. ...

I read this book several times. It is excellent in it's exposure of the United States, Europe, and rich mega corporation's, rip off and genocide in Africa. The Congo, and central Africa in general, has always been a source of mineral wealth for Europeans and Euro-Americans. Yaa-Lengi Ngemi is to be congratulated on bringing this out in our modern day times. For a small book, he has a lot in it, but there is much much more of course on the atrocities in Congo. He should be applauded also for his translation from French to English of the African-Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop's book, "Civilization and Barbarisim". He is a great African Scholar and mentor of mine.

This book is a perfect complement to the more scholarly and policy-oriented book by John Heidenrich on "How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen." I strongly recommend that both books be bought and read at the same time.

This book is a cry from the heart of a Congolese, it has explicit photographs, and you can get through it in half an hour--what you see and feel will be with you for the rest of your life.

It is a good thing when a book of this utility and importance can make its way from the lower depths of Africa and--with the help of amazon--into the mainstream world where anyone can learn of its availability. This is not a book that will be found in libraries or used in classrooms--it is a book that is at once so inexpensive and so horrifying, that any adult who in any way cares about the future of the international community, should buy it....at the same time that they get the Heidenrich book. Two men, world's apart, with one mind and the same broken heart.