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In the Congo, a country rich with diamonds, gold, copper, uranium, oil, and timber, the average worker was reduced to a living income of $120 a year under the rule of Mobutu. This is a brilliant journalistic account set amid the heart of the apocalypse--a nation plunged back to the Iron Age, whose citizens miraculously continue to survive. 8-page photo insert.

Acknowledgements

ix

Map

xi

Introduction

1

(12)

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

13

(22)

Plaything for a king

35

(26)

Birth of the Leopard

61

(26)

Dizzy worms

87

(22)

Living above the shop

109

(22)

A nation on Low Batt

131

(18)

Never naked

149

(20)

The importance of being elegant

169

(24)

I get by with a little help from my friends

193

(24)

A folly in the jungle

217

(22)

The night the pink champagne went flat

239

(10)

The Inseparable Four

249

(20)

Nappies on the floor

269

(22)

Ill-gotten gains

291

(20)

Epilogue

311

(10)

Glossary

321

(4)

Bibliography

325

(4)

Index

329

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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

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