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| Publisher | : Pierre Kroft Legacy Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2023-11-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
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The United States falls head over heels in love with dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and lavishes him with millions of dollars. He finds happiness in his "defining relationship" until the Soviet Union fades into history and Washington's affection fades to indifference, then abandonment. Washington dumps Mobutu like a hot potato, only to discover that he has a covert survival strategy that will sting like a thousand wasps and leave a lasting mark on US's interests. This book explores the dictator's survival strategy and is based on actual events. **** The Secret of the African Dictator is a thrilling tale that unravels the State Department's hidden biases and takes us on a journey where individuals from different nations fight to stay afloat amidst crumbling fortresses and tangled webs of deception. They confront their own limitations, histories, and desires, all while navigating the unpredictable intentions of both allies and enemies. ****y In The Secret of the African Dictator, the sword of rebellion dangles over Mobutu's head. In his hour of need, he seeks solace in the arms of his merciless chief of security and enforcer. Together, they point fingers at the minority Tutsi tribes and their Banyamulenge kin, setting ablaze a fiery storm of genocidal fury towards their chosen sacrificial lambs. The chief of security's heart tangled with a woman linked to one of Mobutu's top rivals, making things more intricate. The security chief wants to knock off his rival, but that puts him between a rock and a hard place with the dictator's power grab. Love and jealousy are on a collision course with loyalty and self-interest, walking a tightrope with potentially catastrophic outcomes. The Secret of the African Dictator spills the beans, drawing inspiration from real-life happenings. **** Before fleeing Zaire for Togo, Mobutu Sese Seko began dictating a final letter to French President Jacques Chirac on May 11, 1997. It took him nine days to finish the message: "Please accept my heartfelt greetings to you and your wife." I do so out of gratitude for our long friendship. Given the gravity of the situation, the situation is painful for me today. First, at my current level of power, I have no control over the population. At the military level, there is no stopping the rebel advance on Kinshasa, which they can reach at any time. Let me remind you that I am in the midst of an unjust war. I am the latest Cold War victim, no longer required by the United States. Today, the United States, Uganda, and Rwanda are using the gang leader Laurence Kabila to stab me in the back, taking advantage of my illness. Not long ago, the United States shared my bed. Trusting them turned out to be my graveyard. Let it be noted before the people of the world that fairness, fairness, is all I ever asked for. I reserve the right to have my memoirs published. Then the entire world will know the real truth and how much fairness I was denied.” .... An international political tale, The Secret of the African Dictator, explores the lives of people in several countries struggling to survive webs of crumbling castles and intrigues as they entangle themselves in their own limitations, histories, yearnings, and what friends and foes have in store for them. Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you liked this book, it would mean a lot if you could take a moment to leave an honest review on your favorite online store. Thanks so much!
| Author | : Paul Kenyon |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 2018-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1784972150 |
A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.
| Author | : Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Publisher | : One World |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2015-07-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0679645985 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
| Author | : Christian Filostrat |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-07-02 |
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Based in part on actual events. The United States falls head over heels in love with Mobutu Sese Seko and lavishes him with millions of dollars. He finds happiness in his "defining relationship," until the Soviet Union fades into history and Washington's affection fades to indifference, then abandonment. Washington dumps Mobutu, only to discover that he has a covert survival strategy that will harm the US. The Secret of the African Dictator is a global political thriller that follows the State Department's internal racism as well as the lives of people from various countries as they struggle to survive webs of crumbling castles and intrigues, becoming entangled in their own limitations, history, and yearnings, as well as what friends and foes have in store for them. Before fleeing Zaire for Togo, Mobutu Sese Seko began dictating a final letter to French President Jacques Chirac on May 11, 1997. It took him nine days to finish the message: "Please accept my heartfelt greetings to you and your wife." I do so out of gratitude for our long friendship. Given the gravity of the situation, the situation is painful for me today. First, at my current level of power, I have no control over the population. At the military level, there is no stopping the rebel advance on Kinshasa, which they can reach at any time. Let me remind you that I am in the midst of an unjust war. I am the latest Cold War victim, no longer required by the United States. Today, the United States, Uganda, and Rwanda are using the gang leader Laurence Kabila to stab me in the back, taking advantage of my illness. Not long ago, the United States shared my bed. Trusting them turned out to be my graveyard. Let it be noted before the people of the world that fairness, fairness, is all I ever asked for. I reserve the right to have my memoirs published. Then the entire world will know the real truth and how much fairness I was denied." Mobutu of Zaire gloried in Washington's affection. As long as the Soviet Union was interested in the Congolese nation, the dictator enjoyed complete American support. The USSR is no longer extant, having been lost to history. With the Soviet Bear no longer present, Washington's long-held affection shifts to rejection-and even outright abandonment. The threat of rebellion is close at hand for Mobutu. In desperation, he turns to his brutal security chief. Together, they blame the minority Tutsi tribes and their Banyamulenge kin, igniting a genocidal rage against their scapegoats. The chief of security's love for a woman involved with one of Mobutu's main challengers complicates matters. The security chief wants his rival dead, but doing so puts him in direct conflict with the dictator's plan to reclaim power. Love and jealousy are about to collide with loyalty and self-interest, potentially with disastrous consequences. The Secret of the African Dictator is based in part on actual events. It is a clever, twisting story of political intrigue and one African dictator's desperate, violent attempt to survive the end of the Cold War and Washington's rejection.
| Author | : Joseph J. Darowski |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2020-05-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476675228 |
Black Panther was the first black superhero in mainstream comic books, and his most iconic adventures are analyzed here. This collection of new essays explores Black Panther's place in the Marvel universe, focusing on the comic books. With topics ranging from the impact apartheid and the Black Panther Party had on the comic to theories of gender and animist imagery, these essays analyze individual storylines and situate them within the socio-cultural framework of the time periods in which they were created, drawing connections that deepen understanding of both popular culture and the movements of society. Supporting characters such as Everett K. Ross and T'Challa's sister Shuri are also considered. From his creation in 1966 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee up through the character's recent adventures by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze, more than fifty years of the Black Panther's history are addressed.
| Author | : Gareth Griffiths |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 2014-09-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317895851 |
Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.
| Author | : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| Publisher | : The New Press |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2019-03-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1620974665 |
A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time" Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree, " written in 1960, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda, to the playful "The Ghost of Michael Jackson," written as a professor at the University of California, Irvine, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. Covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ's collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society, big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British, and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ's most beloved stories, "Minutes of Glory," tells of Beatrice, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city's beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. Published for the first time in America, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa's best-loved writers.
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| Total Pages | : 840 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Literature, Modern |
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| Author | : Casey Michel |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2021-11-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1250274532 |
A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. "An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." —The Los Angeles Review of Books For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn’t been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama, that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the USA. American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States’ implosion into a center of global offshoring took place: how states like Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company, and how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing trans-national crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America's universities and think tanks and cultural centers; and how those on the front-line are trying to restore America's legacy of anti-corruption leadership—and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy.
| Author | : Nelson Mandela |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2008-03-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0759521042 |
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
