In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz

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  • Author: Michela Wrong
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Catalogue: 101676
  • Size: 14x23cm
A Century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption.

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz is a sparkling account of the rise and fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the charismatic dictator who plundered his country's wealth and indulged a passion for pink champagne, gold jewellery and chartered Concordes.

Being one of wealthiest countries of the African continent in terms of natural riches institutionalized kleptomania rules, the Congo became in Mobutu's hands the paradigm of all that was wrong in post-colonial Africa.

Michela Wrong's fascinating dissection of the Congo tells us a story of grim comedy amidst the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit. But travelling around the country trying to find the ultimate reason for all the suffering, she finds in the Zairean people the strength of the human spirit untainted.



'A brilliant account of Africa's most extraordinary dictator... This book will become a classic.' The Economist

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