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Assassination Congo (Democratic Republic) Congo (Democratic Republic) Description and travel Congo (Democratic Republic) Drama Congo (Democratic Republic) History Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa Folk music Popular music Rumbas Congo (Democratic Republic) United Nations. Secretary-General.Humphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Michel Chikwanine, who at age five was abducted during a schoolyard soccer game and forced to become a child soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 HUMStine, Megan
Summary: Introduces the Congo rain forest, describing how large it is, the unique plants and animals that live there, and why conserving the Congo is so important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 916.751 STISomaiya, Ravi
Summary: "A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.23 SOMButcher, Tim
Summary: The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and dugout canoe, and aided by characters ranging from U.N. aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.751 BUTVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world-especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon-but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Reid, Stuart A.
Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.51031 REISummary: A mercenary unit rolling on a steam train across the Congo, headed for the dual tasks of rescuing civilians imperiled by rebels and recovering a cache of diamonds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served, for less than a year, as the first elected prime minister until he was brutally assassinated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUMJuma, Liliane Leila
Summary: "Liliane Leila Juma was 16 years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. In this gut-wrenching memoir, she gives an account of her life before and after her family was torn apart by the twin nightmares of civil war and invasion. Sincere and revealing, it gives a moving account of a young girl's journey from a protected and secure family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 JUMButcher, Tim
Summary: Journalist Tim Butcher offers this mixture of travelogue and history based on his experiences trekking through Africa's dense Congo region.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 916.751 BUTGriffin, W. E. B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIShawl, Nisi
Summary: An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAOkwess International (Musical group)
Contents: Hello -- Musonsu -- Ofakombolo -- Benanga -- Pondjo pondjo -- Emikele ngamo -- Nkoy -- Nzele momi -- Le temps passé -- Ekombe -- Bengai yo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OKWHeale, Jay
Summary: Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, languages, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the third largest country in Africa, a former colony of Belgium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 967.51 HEAVerckys.
Contents: Bassala hot (Afrobeat) -- Ya nini (Congolese Rumba) -- Cheka sana (Afro Funk) -- Oui verckys (Organ Jerk) -- Nakobala yo Denise (Afro Pop) -- Sex vévé (Blues) -- Sisa motema (Psychedelic Rumba) -- Talali talala (Afro Funk) -- Zonga vonvon (Psychedelic Rumba) -- Nakomi paralise (Cavacha) -- Matinda comono (Pachanga).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN VERSummary: Soul Jazz Records looks at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN CONKara, Siddharth
Summary: "An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COLSummary: An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONAnthony, Lawrence.
Summary: In this inspiring, heartfelt account, Lawrence Anthony, conservationist and coauthor of The Elephant Whisperer, traces his efforts to save the endangered northern white rhino.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.66 ANTKasai Allstars
Contents: The chief's enthronement/Oyaye -- Yangye, the evil leopard -- Salute to Kalombo -- Down and out -- He who makes bush fires for others -- As they walked into the forest on a Sunday, they encountered apes dressed as humans -- Thus spoke the ancestors -- Beware the fetish -- A good husband -- In praise of homeboys -- The dead don't dance -- The ploughman = Le laboureur (recorded live, July 2011,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crammed Discs 2014