By Ryszard Kapuscinski
ISBN-10: 014118678X
ISBN-13: 9780141186788
'This is a truly own ebook, approximately being on my own and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers despatched him to Angola to hide the civil warfare that had damaged out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda after which the remainder of the rustic collapsed right into a civil warfare that was once within the author's phrases 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates a unprecedented means to explain and to give an explanation for the person that means of grand political abstractions.
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Out of print. See No. 58. 31. Mauritania, by Alfred G. Gerteiny. 1981. Out of print. See No. 68. Page iii 32. Ethiopia, by Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld. 1981. Out of print. See No. 56. 33. , by Ronald Bruce St. John. 1991. 34. Mauritius, by Lindsay Rivire. 1982. Out of print. See No. 49. 35. Western Sahara, by Tony Hodges. 1982. Out of print. See No. 55. 36. Egypt, by Joan Wucher King. 1984. Out of print. See No. 67. 37. South Africa, by Christopher Saunders. 1983. 38. Liberia, by D. Elwood Dunn and Svend E.
With Gilchrist Olympio's party out of the race, the southern vote split among several contenders (one estimate has it that sixty-six political parties were certified at one stage or another) with the predominantly southern CAR of Yao Agboyibor (a lawyer, and prime catalyst of the National Conference) emerging as the country's largest party. Edem Kodjo, an Ewe leader from Kpalimé, came third (after the RPT) with barely seven seats. Koffigoh, thoroughly discredited by his cooperation with Eyadema, barely secured his own seat in the Assembly.
Apr. 9, 1992 Troops re-occupy Radio Lomé. Apr. 16, 1992 HCR amends the constitution to prevent both Koffigoh and Eyadema from running for the Presidency. Page xxvi May 5, 1992 Olympio's campaigning motorcade ambushed in North Togo by army units under the command of Eyadema's son. The wounded Olympio is evacuated to Paris. May 9, 1992 Southern Togo paralyzed by a general strike. Oct. 22, 1992 Army storms the National Assembly over the confiscating of RPT party funds. Party leaders beaten up. Oct.
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