Coding in the Congo: Please read this.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Please read this.

An opinion piece just came out by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. Please read this.

After reading that, make absolutely sure you also read this by Jason Stearns on Congo Siasa, this by Chris Blattman, this by Wronging Rights and Texas in Africa on this issue.

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Books on the DRC

Butcher, Tim. 2008. Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart. New York: Grove Press. [Not a good book].
Clark, John. 2004. The African Stakes of the Congo War. New York: Palgrave. [An OK book].
Le Carre, John. 2006. The Mission Song. New York: Little & Brown. [Not a fantastic novel, but nice to read. Especially while being in the Kivus].
Lemarchand, Rene. 2009. The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. [Haven't read it yet].
Mealer, Bryan. 2008. All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo. [Great book].
Naipaul, V.S. 1989. A Bend in the River. New York: Vintage. [Great novel].
Prunier, Gerard. 2009. Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe. New York: Oxford University Press. [Good book. Lots of information].
Roberts, Marcus. 1905. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State. Brussels: Lebègue. [Great travel narrative].
Stearns, Jason. 2011. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. [OK book. Very well written].
Turner, Thomas. 2007. The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality. New York: Zed Books. [An OK book].
Wrong, Michela. 2002. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. New York: Harper Perennial. [Fantastic].