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- catalog abstract ""Mr. Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michela Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu Sese Seko collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption." "This is a portrait of the grotesque as confusion takes over: pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with tracksuited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through hotel wine cellars rather than see bottles lost to the new regime. Congo, Africa's richest county in terms of its natural resources, has institutionalised kelptomania: everyone is on the take. In a country where the minumum wage has dropped to below $150 a year, the government, over twenty-five years, spent $250 million providing courtesy cars. Congo has a vanity nuclear reactor built on a subsiding slope and one of its uranium rods is missing ..." "A century on, nothing seems to have changed at the heart of Africa: it is lawless, graceless and it slaughters its own. But this is a story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11771226.
- catalog coverage "Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government 1960-1997.".
- catalog coverage "Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government 1997-".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Mr. Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michela Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu Sese Seko collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption." "This is a portrait of the grotesque as confusion takes over: pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with tracksuited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through hotel wine cellars rather than see bottles lost to the new regime. Congo, Africa's richest county in terms of its natural resources, has institutionalised kelptomania: everyone is on the take. In a country where the minumum wage has dropped to below $150 a year, the government, over twenty-five years, spent $250 million providing courtesy cars. Congo has a vanity nuclear reactor built on a subsiding slope and one of its uranium rods is missing ..." "A century on, nothing seems to have changed at the heart of Africa: it is lawless, graceless and it slaughters its own. But this is a story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-314) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 324 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz.".
- catalog identifier "1841154210".
- catalog isFormatOf "In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Fourth Estate,".
- catalog relation "In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz.".
- catalog spatial "Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government 1960-1997.".
- catalog spatial "Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government 1997-".
- catalog spatial "Congo (Democratic Republic)".
- catalog subject "967.51033 21".
- catalog subject "DT658.25 .W76 2001".
- catalog subject "Kabila, Laurent-Désiré.".
- catalog subject "Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-1997.".
- catalog subject "Political corruption Congo (Democratic Republic) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Wrong, Michela, 1961-".
- catalog title "In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz : living on the brink of disaster in the Congo / Michela Wrong.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".