Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Tchicaya U Tam'si and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book G K Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book May Our People Triumph written by Patrice Lumumba and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lumumba was the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was born in Kasai province of the Belgian Congo. He was educated at a missionary school and worked in Leopoldville (Kinshasa) and Stanleyville (Kisangani) as a clerk and journalist. In 1955 Lumumba became regional president of a Congolese trade union and joined the Belgian Liberal Party. He was arrested in 1957 on charges of embezzlement and imprisoned for a year. On his release he helped found the Mouvement National Congolais (MNC) in 1958. In 1959 Belgium announced a five year path to independence and in the December local elections the MNC won a convincing majority despite Lumumba being under arrest at the time. A 1960 conference in Belgium agreed to bring independence forward to June 1960 with elections in May. Lumumba and the MNC formed the first government on June 23, 1960, with Lumumba as Prime Minister and Joseph Kasavubu as President. His rule was marked by the political disruption when the province of Katanga declared independence under Moise Tshombe in June 1960 with Belgian support. Despite the arrival of United Nations troops unrest continued and Lumumba sought Soviet aid. In September Lumumba was dismissed from government by Kasavubu, an act of dubious legality. On September 14 a coup d'etat headed by Colonel Joseph Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko) and supported by Kasavubu gained power. Lumumba was arrested on December 1, 1960 by troops of Mobutu. He was captured in Port Francqui and flown to Leopoldville in handcuffs. Mobutu said Lumumba would be tried for inciting the army to rebellion and other crimes. United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold made an appeal to Kasavubu asking that Lumumba be treated according to due process of law. The USSR denounced Hammarskjold and the Western Powers as responsible for Lumumba's arrest and demanded his release. The United Nations Security Council was called into session on December 7 to consider Soviet demands that the U.N. seek Lumumba's immediate release, the immediate restoration of Lumumba as head of the Congo government, the disarming of the forces of Mobutu, and the immediate evacuation of Belgians from the Congo. Soviet Representative Valerian Zorin refused U.S. demands that he disqualify himself as Security Council President during the debate. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, answering Soviet attacks against his Congo operations, said that if the U.N. force were withdrawn from the Congo "I fear everything will crumble." Following a U.N. report that Lumumba had been mistreated by his captors, his followers threated (on December 9) to arrest all Belgians and "start cutting off the heads of some of them" unless Lumumba was released within 48 hours. The threat to the U.N. cause was intensified by the announcement of the withdrawal of their U.N. Congo contingents by Yugoslavia, the United Arab Republic, Ceylon, Indonesia, Morocco, and Guinea. The Soviet pro-Lumumba resolution was defeated on December 14 by a vote of 8-2. On the same day, a Western resolution that would have given Hammarskjold increased powers to deal with the Congo situation was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Lumumba was then transported on January 17, 1961 from the military prison in Thysville near Leopoldville to a "more secure" prison in Jadotville in the Katanga Province. There were reports that Lumumba and his fellow prisoners, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, were beaten by provincial police upon their arrival in secessionist Katanga. Two months later, Lumumba was executed along with his two aides. In February of 2002, the Belgian government admitted to "an irrefutable portion of responsibility in the events that led to the death of Lumumba." In July of 2002 documents released by the United States government revealed that the CIA had played a role in Lumumba's assassination, aiding his opponents with money and political support, and in the case of Mobutu with weapons and military training."

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Download or read book From Ind pendance Cha Cha to Le Jour D Apr s written by Alexis C. Finet and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation reflects on questions of identities emanating from literature and artistic works by writers and sound artists with geographical, genetic, and genealogical ties to the Congo River. It takes a chronological approach to redefine concepts of identity first discussed by Congolese thinkers immediately after the Independence Era, in the 1960s. The Independence Era refers to the period during which a great majority of Francophone countries of Africa regained their Independence from the French and Belgian governments and started to establish their own new political systems. This includes the two countries discussed in this dissertation, countries which borrow the name of the Congo River in their official denominations: The Republic of Congo and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. The aim of this dissertation is to look at the several hints left by Congolese thinkers to best describe a hybrid identity still specifically Congolese - referring to a root identity of Kongo, spelled with an initial K, without neglecting both the colonial and the postcolonial in the building of this adjusted definition of identity. As such, I dissect Sylvain Bemba's Congolie through the lens of two elements, sound and liquid. To update this concept of Congolie that I will first explain, I propose to represent all elements of Kongo, Congolie, and Congolese "diaspora" under the following phonological representation: /kongo/. Using a simplified International Phonetic Alphabet transcription between brackets refers to oralité and prevents the written choice of Congo vs. Kongo that would refer to a narrowed choice of a segment of history rather than the encompassing vision of this history. The first chapter analyzes important poetic works of Tchicaya U'Tamsi, in excerpts showing the poet's detachment from an "All-Congolese" narrative. The second chapter follows TUT's writing by scrutinizing the poetry of Sony Labou Tansi, less discussed than his novels or plays, a gap that this dissertation intends to somewhat fill. The third chapter looks at a novel by Emmanuel Dongala, Photo de Groupe au Bord du Fleuve. The narrative proposed by Dongala, a contemporary author, shows an example of the apparition of sound and liquid together in abundance within one single work and to permit the establishment and strengthening of the identity of the novel's character through cultural referencing rather than explicit naming of places (city names, countries, et cetera). The fourth and final chapter follows the analyses by looking at three representative sound artists who in their own ways commented on /kongo/ through their music: Papa Wemba, Youssoupha, and Baloji. The contemporaneity of these works also allows this dissertation to open on the consideration of African and Africana Studies through the important changes that happened in the twenty-first century in that regard.

Download or read book The River in the Belly written by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving lyric meditation on the Congo River that explores the identity, chaos, and wonder of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as race and the detritus of colonialism. With The River in the Belly, award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila seeks no less than to reinitiate the Congo River in the imaginary of European languages. Through his invention of the “solitude”—a short poetic form lending itself to searing observation and troubled humor, prone to unexpected tonal shifts and lyrical u-turns—the collection celebrates, caresses, and chastises Central Africa’s great river, the world’s second largest by discharge volume. Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Soviet history, Congolese popular music, international jazz, and everyday life in European exile, Mwanza Mujila has fashioned a work that can speak to the extraordinary hopes and tragedies of post-independence Democratic Republic of the Congo while also mining the generative yet embattled subject position of the African diasporic writer in Europe longing for home. Fans of Tram 83 will discover in River the same incandescent, improvisatory verbal energy that so dazzled them in Mwanza Mujila’s English-language debut.

Download or read book Congo Inc written by In Koli Jean Bofane and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy, grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an online game where he seizes control of the world's natural resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism, colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.

Download or read book Tram 83 written by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. Tram 83 is his award-winning and raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.

Download or read book The Revolution Has No Tribe written by Dike-Ogu Egwuatu Chukwumerije and published by Dikeogu Chukwumerije. This book was released on 2008 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative collection of poetry, artwork, pictures and descriptive essays dealing with contemporary themes concerning the African condition. Rich in rare information on the continent's history, places and people; it is both highly educative and entertaining. It contains non-conventional viewpoints on Africa and is cutting edge in its use of poetry, and other creative strains, in discussing Africa.

Download or read book Democratic Republic of the Congo written by Terri Willis and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geography and climate, history, wildlife, economy, government, people, religion, and culture of the Congo.

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Download or read book Broken Glass written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of 'Credit Gone Away', a squalid Congolese bar, is related by one of its most loyal customers, Broken Glass, who has been commissioned by its owner to set down an account of the characters who frequent it. Broken Glass himself is a disgraced alcoholic school teacher with a love of French language and literature which he has largely failed to communicate to his pupils but which he displays in the pages of his notebook. The notebook is also a farewell to the bar and to his fellow drinkers. After writing the final words, Broken Glass will go down to the River Tchinouka and throw himself into its murky waters, where his lamented mother also drowned.