Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times.

At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
• Congo: The Epic History of a People
• The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
• Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
• The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
• White Teacher
• China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
• Congo Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed