{"product_id":"why-comrades-go-to-war-liberation-politics-and-the-outbreak-of-africas-deadliest-conflict-by-philip-roessler-harry-verhoeven","title":"Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict by Philip Roessler, Harry Verhoeven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 9781849049085\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOxford University Press - 15 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNovember 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 512 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire\/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara to Luanda, the rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500 kilometers in seven months to crush the dictatorship. To the Congolese rebels and their Pan-Africanist allies, the vanquishing of the Mobutu regime represented nothing short of a 'second independence' for Congo and Central Africa as a whole and the dawning of a new regional order of peace and security. Within fifteen months, however, Central Africa's 'liberation peace' would collapse, triggering a cataclysmic fratricide between the heroes of the war against Mobutu and igniting the deadliest conflict since World War II.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46578820841634,"sku":null,"price":230.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/51pxHeUxX5L.jpg?v=1770648002","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/why-comrades-go-to-war-liberation-politics-and-the-outbreak-of-africas-deadliest-conflict-by-philip-roessler-harry-verhoeven","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}