{"product_id":"9780007562923_congo","title":"Congo","description":"\u003cp\u003eEpic yet eminently readable, penetrating and profoundly moving, ‘Congo’ traces the fate of one of the world's most devastated countries, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a span of several hundred years and an enormous cast of characters, ‘Congo’ chronicles the most dramatic episodes of the nation’s history, the people and events that have determined Congo’s development – from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley and his meeting with Dr Livingstone to the brutal regime of Belgium’s King Leopold II; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's exploitative rule; and from Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s world famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals – charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, elderly, female smugglers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China – to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective in an attempt to return a nation's history to its people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David van Reybrouck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284735017109,"sku":"9780007562923","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007562923.jpg?v=1776992293","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007562923_congo","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}