Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo
and the Great War of Africa, by Jason Stearns, is an account of the political
and military unrest in the Congo for much of the 1990s onward. Stearns does a
remarkable job considering the complexity of the war, and the ignorance of
people about the Congo.
What we get is an account of how the Congo works, or fails
to work, as a political and social entity. This makes for sober reading. If a culture can develop, or evolve, into
such an utterly corrupt entity where any contact with it comprises a person’s
moral sense, we should all be very troubled. For if it happens in the Congo, it can just as well happen here.
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