Author: United States. Army DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
U.S. Army Area Handbook for the Rubuplic of the Congo (Leopoldville)
Author: United States. Army DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
White Malice
Author: Susan WilliamsPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541768280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana’s independence, his determined call for Pan-Africanism was heeded by young, idealistic leaders across the continent and by African Americans seeking civil rights at home. Yet, a moment that signified a new era of African freedom simultaneously marked a new era of foreign intervention and control. In White Malice, Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa’s new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in. Drawing on original research, recently declassified documents, and told through an engaging narrative, Williams introduces readers to idealistic African leaders and to the secret agents, ambassadors, and even presidents who deliberately worked against them, forever altering the future of a continent.
International Commerce
Author: U.S. Army Area Handbook for Nigeria
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
U.S. Government Research Reports
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Origins of AIDS
Author: Jacques PépinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108800564
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.
Basic Data on the Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Author: Marcia SprinklePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Author: