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Recommend a modern history/current affairs book of Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • 01-10-2010 7:44pm
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    RDM_83 again
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    Mod's please feel free to move not sure at all which forum this should go into (History maybe?)

    Hi I'm looking for a recommendation on a book on modern (post cold war) Africa and its conflicts/politics/history in particular the Congo region. This is motivated solely by my desire to want to learn more about this area after reading so many various news reports on the DR Congo so doesn't have to specific to this country or the Second Congo War at all (though having read the wikipedia page on it I'd say its deserving a many in itself).

    Not really looking for an aid workers journal memoir (well not an Asne Seierstad one, though obviously something like Robert Fisks books would be different story)

    Thanks very much for any suggestions even if it is solely about the military side of things it would be very interesting considering its considered the deadliest armed conflict in recent years.


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    Manach
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    A recent book I read on the that area of Africa was The Shackled Continent by Robert Guest. The author is a journalist from the Economist, so it leans slightly to the conservative. I found it well written and he spent time in various countries around the region, including I think the Congo


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