HISTORY AS TRAGEDY : 'Lumumba'.

Commonweal | October 12, 2001| | Copyright

In the early 1980s I spent two years in Africa, including several months in the calamity formerly known as Zaire. Mobutu's Congo was a wreck, its roads in disrepair, its phones and electricity spotty, its hospitals lacking medicines. Unpaid soldiers freelanced as thugs; if you had an enemy, you could get him beaten up, or his car burned, for $50. There was a zoo in Kinshasa, but most of its cages were empty. People had eaten the animals. Mobutu, meanwhile, busied himself amassing personal plunder. Ridiculous in leopard-skin cap, silk ascot, and dark sunglasses, he stared down ...

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