Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 70-84
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About the Author

Michael G. Schatzberg is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (1988) and Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960–1990 (1991).

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