Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

from sgtbigg

If you know nothing about the war(s) in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (AKA Zaire) this will give you a decent overview. Occasionally Stearns makes it difficult to keep the timeline straight. Not a great book, but there's not much to choose from when it comes to the Congo. The great ...

from AndreasJ

Given their massive death toll, the Congo wars since 1996 have received remarkably little attention in western media, even compared with other African wars without direct western involvement (eg. Darfur). Stearns' book was therefore near enough an automatic purchase. Stearns aims to render the wa...

from zmagic69

I really did not know much about the Congo and it's 15 year war, but was interested in the country after reading In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, about Mubutu's reign in that country. I thought things were bad when Mubutu was running things, I had no idea how horrible things are now. The book is loa...

from Malarchy

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters is an exceptionally well written set of accounts of the actions in and around the Congo Wars. This is not a history of the wars themselves but a series of expertly interwoven narratives charting some of the actions of the people involved. It is the story of politi...

from Malarchy

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters is an exceptionally well written set of accounts of the actions in and around the Congo Wars. This is not a history of the wars themselves but a series of expertly interwoven narratives charting some of the actions of the people involved. It is the story of politi...