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Product Description: Congo has the natural resources the world needs. Its forests count in the fight against global climate change and its mining sector helps satisfy our addiction to the latest high tech gadgets. Congoâs farmers could feed all of Africaâs population of over a billion people...read more
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9781783602445 | Zed Books, June 15, 2016, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Congo has the natural resources the world needs.
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9781783602438 | Zed Books, May 15, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Congo has the natural resources the world needs.
Product Description: Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy,and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that while others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported "template format" reform package pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the well-being of ordinary Congolese...read more
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9781848138377 | 1 edition (Zed Books, September 15, 2011), cover price $134.95
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9781848138360 | Zed Books, September 15, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy,and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states.
Product Description: The populations of many Third World mega-cities have far outstripped any apparent economic basis for their size and survival. In this volume Congolese and Western social scientists cover most aspects of urban life in Kinshasa--how ordinary people hustle for a modest living; the famous "bargaining" system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education...read more
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9781842774908 | Zed Books, March 16, 2005, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: The populations of many Third World mega-cities have far outstripped any apparent economic basis for their size and survival.
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9781842774915 | Zed Books, March 16, 2005, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: The populations of many Third World mega-cities have far outstripped any apparent economic basis for their size and survival.
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