David van reybrouck interweaves his own familys history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, childsoldiers, elderly, female smugglers, and many in the african diaspora of europe and china to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the congolese. Thus david van reybrouck ends a book on congos history with flourish, a history that is intimate, thorough, and accurate. Congo een geschiedenis dutch paperback january 1, 2010 by david van reybrouck author. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. Esteemed scholar david van reybrouck balances hundreds of. In zijn fijnzinnige odes geeft hij zich helemaal bloot.
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