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Article: Mort et maladie au Zaire. (Reviews Of Books).
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JAN-LODEWIJK GROOTAERS (ed.), Mort et maladie au Zaire. Afrika Studien/ Cahiers africains, Zaire, annees 90, vol. 8, no. 31-32, Tervuren: CEDAF/ ASDOC; Pads: Harmattan, 1998, 172 pp., ISBN 2 7384 6233 2.
This volume documents and analyses the agony of Mobutu's Second Republic. Its four contributions scrutinise the `crisis' of identity by focusing on the crisis of death and mourning in Kinshasa. Corpses are abandoned in the mortuaries, or along the road; graves are violated to recuperate precious items such as tombstones or crosses. The `pillage of death' has become a metaphor of the death (or un-death) of the Zairean postcolony--the quest for identity in the ...