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East Along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press) - Softcover
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In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
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One of the first of the publisher's travel series, this vivid account details a trip the author and her boyfriendboth journaliststook four years ago on the Congo (and eventually overland to the border of Uganda). Their route by river from the capital of Kinshasa to Kisangani followed the path of Conrad's Heart of Darkness and shows that, in a sense, little has changedthe earlier colonial brutality has been replaced by the corruption and exploitation of President Mobutu. Winternitz proved to be happily gregarious, mixing with Zaireans, learning the local language, passing on wonderful impressions and quotations to the readeras when she describes the universal excitement when a hippopotamus is caught and butchered. She also illustrates the shattered state of Zaire's economy (for example, the radio station in Kisangani, one of Zaire's largest cities, no longer broadcasts because scavengers kept stealing valuable wire and cablesavailable only on the black market if at alluntil the transmitting tower collapsed). The journey ends on an appropriately bitter note: Winternitz and her boyfriend are arrested by Zairean secret police and grilled on and off for more than a weekthus experiencing firsthand Mobutu's machinery of repression. Despite a tendency to overstate an already convincing case and sometimes sloppy language, Winternitz offers an eye-opening tour of Zaire.
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After a 15-year absence from Africa, the author and her companion gamely embark upon a 2000 mile, two-month trek by boat, bus, and truck into the heart of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo. The result is this appealing, wide-ranging blend of travel writing and political journalism. Everyday adventures and life are described and used as springboards to a broader exposition on the colonial past and desperate present of Zaire. In the background always is the corrupt and corrupting President Mobutu, whose security police finally expel Winternitz. Entertaining and informative for both the adult reader and student of Africa. Jerry Maioli, Western Lib. Network, Olympia, Wash.
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- PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0871131625
- ISBN 13 9780871131621
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages274
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