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Article: The History of the Congo.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2004
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The History of the Congo. By Ch. Didier Gondola. (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii, 215. $39.95.)
This study is part of a series intended to give general readers a better understanding of various countries that are important to the United States. The series provides general historical, cultural, and geographical backgrounds of the countries described, while taking into account the significance of the nations in an interlinked world, focusing on the last thirty years. In many respects, Ch. Didier Gondola accomplishes this task. Drawing on the work of well-established scholars, Gondola surveys the story of the Congo from earliest prehistoric ...