America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the Dr Congo

by Justin Podur

Book Overview

This book examines US interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda -- two countries whose post-independence histories are inseparable. It analyzes the US campaigns to prevent Patrice Lumumba from turning the DR Congo into a sovereign, democratic, prosperous republic on a continent where America's ally apartheid South Africa was hegemonic; America's installation of and support for Mobutu to keep the region under neo-colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030447014
• ISBN13: 9783030447014
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"