In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

He was known as "the Leopard," and for the thirty-two years of his reign Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, showed all the cunning of his namesake, seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition…

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