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Blacks Congo (Democratic Republic) Fiction Congo (Democratic Republic) Congo (Democratic Republic) Description and travel Congo (Democratic Republic) Fiction Congo (Democratic Republic) History Homeless persons Fiction Popular music Popular music Congo (Democratic Republic) 1951-1960 Rumbas Congo (Democratic Republic) Soukous (Music)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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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 HUMReid, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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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 OKWSummary: 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 CONHeale, 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.
Format: text
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 VERKara, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 916.751 STISummary: 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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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 ANTJuma, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 JUMKasai 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
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KASButcher, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.751 BUTAnderson, Natalie C.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDWoods, Vanessa
Summary: Traces how a Discovery Channel writer and her scientist fianc šettled in a Bonobo sanctuary in war-torn Congo, where their research enabled greater understanding of the characteristics and largely peaceful culture of the rare ape that shares 98.7 percent of human DNA.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 WOOSummary: 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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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 BUTHood, Joshua
Summary: Retired airman Travis Lane joins a company that provides protection for clients worldwide. But it's trial by fire when his first mission takes him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to find and retrieve a kidnapped American in the middle of a densely forested jungle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HOOKabasele Tshamala
Contents: Disc 1: Valerina Regina -- Kale Kato -- Parafifi -- African jazz -- Baila -- Tujala tshibemba -- Mokonzi ya mboka -- Tembe Nye -- Naweli boboto -- Indépendance cha cha -- Jamais kolonga -- Africa bola ngombi -- Matanga ya mobido -- Kamulanga -- Bana na nwa -- Nabongisa kala -- Tika ndeko na yo te -- Mama ngai habanera -- African jazz mokili mobimbo -- Miwela-miwela -- Bolingo suka te. Disc 2:...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KABContents: CD 1. Coopération (Franco & Sam Mangwana) (12:08) -- Doublé-doublé (Nyboma) (8:12) -- Africa mokili mobimba (5:07) ; Indépendance cha cha cha (3:04) (Joseph Kabasele & African Jazz) -- Siluwangi wapi accordeon (Franco & O.K. Jazz & Camille Feruzi) (3:53) -- Marabenta (Vamos para o Campo) (Sam Mangwana) (7:48) -- Machette (Les Bantous de la Capitale) (9:12) -- Lina (3:12) ; Tcha tcha tcha de mi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN GOLSummary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARNoel, Papa.
Contents: Bana Congo (5:02) -- Kin Havane (5:54) -- Limpia mi son (3:28) -- Combinacion de soneros (4:50) -- Juliana (7:41) -- Molimo (7:32) -- Homenaje a Isaac Oviedo (5:35) -- No te doy na (3:38) -- M Bonge (6:20) -- Oye ; Sabrosos son (3:50)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tumi 2002