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What is Back to the Congo about?
Fascinated from childhood by the gifts and stories of her enigmatic uncle, a Catholic missionary in the Belgian Congo, Lieve Joris set off for Africa to retrace his steps in what is now Zaire. Back to the Congo, her vivid account of this journey, examines relentlessly the psychology and scenery of a country of unreconciled cities and peoples, a hash of post-colonial socialism and corruption under the regime of the ubiquitous President Mobutu, the site of both Joseph
- Author
- Lieve Joris
- Publisher
- Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780689121647
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Social Science
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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