In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz by Michela Wrong

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz by Michela Wrong

Joyous a book that makes other journalists weep with envy The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written an eloquent, brilliantly researched account Sunday Times One of The Economists best books by foreign correspondents.

‘A brilliant account of Africa’s most extraordinary dictator told with wry wit and delicious irony… this book will become a classic’ The Economist

‘Provocative, touching, and sensitively written … an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land’ Sunday Times

‘Michela Wrong made the so-called ‘Heart of Darkness' much less opaque to me when I visited the CongoShe can do the same for you if you read this brave and witty book’ Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great

‘Michela Wrong nimbly balances absurdity and outrage in her portrait of Mobutu Sese Seko and the wreckage he visited – with steady Western sponsorship – on the country he called Zaire. Her book is charged with pity and terror, and with the sort of sustaining humour that she rightly admires in Mobutu’s former subjects’ Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will be Killed With Our Families

Michela Wrong has been a foreign correspondent since joining Reuters after University and has worked extensively in Africa for the BBC and has also worked for the Sunday Times. She now writes for the Financial Times.

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ISBN 13	9781841154220
ISBN 10	1841154229
Title	In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz
Author	Michela Wrong
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2001-07-02
Number of pages	336
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