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2 Reddit comments about Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe:

u/JoshSN · 2 pointsr/funny

The guys they want to do the direct action are, by far, the worst actors on the world stage today. Please educate yourself about the role of the UPDF in the 2nd Congo War.

I can recommend Africa's World War by Pruniere, having read it.

You would never, ever, ever support another Ugandan invasion of the DRC if you read it.

Shorter, online, is this more balanced look at the LRA.

u/celoyd · 1 pointr/Africa

Really glad to hear it. Her larger (but generally similar) work, The Trouble with the Congo, is widely available as an e-book. I was able to borrow it as such from my local public library.

You probably already know, but some great relatively academic DRC resources are:

  • Africa’s World War, by G. Prunier.
  • The Texas in Africa blog.
  • The Congo Siasa blog.
  • Anything by David Newbury.

    It’s obviously not about DRC proper, but Re-Imagining Rwanda, by J. Pottier, really helped me cut through a lot of the misleading rhetoric about the Rwandese side of things and understand just how much this is an information war. It gets pretty controversial and I wouldn’t believe everything it implies.