Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book contains essays by Wamba Dia Wamba, a revolutionary Congolese intellectual and leader of the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD), a movement formed in Congo in 1998 to challenge the Kabila government that rose to power in 1997. A longtime Congolese scholar-activist, Wamba Dia Wamba tells the story of important political developments during this time in Congo-Zaire, one of the richest countries in Africa and a leading source of the world’s diamonds, gold, and minerals.

Born in 1942 in Sundi-Lutete, Congo, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba is a graduate of Western Michigan University and Claremont Graduate School. He has taught in the department of history at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania where he is now an associate professor. He was arrested in 1981 by the Mobutu regime while visiting his parents in Congo and was confined for a year. He was also an active participant in the Sovereign National Conference that sought to establish a framework for democracy in Congo. A widely published author, Wamba dia Wamba is considered one of the most prolific and important theoreticians of African liberation since Amilcar Cabral. Divided into two parts, this book contains documents from the RCD including its political program and positions on the removal of Kabila, foreign troops, the progress of the war, and national reconciliation in Part One. Part Two includes the essays written by Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba over the past twenty years. They chronicle the recent history of Congo-Zaire and the dynamics of its long struggle for liberation.