Reading about the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Congo (that is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or RDC) brought all the memories back. It was the story of how the vast area in the centre of Africa that had been run for eighty years, first brutally, then paternalistically, by one of the smallest and least substantial countries of Europe, had been plunged into a poorly-planned independence, and triggered a major international crisis. Assumptions about Africa's seamless progress...
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