In The Footsteps Of Mr. Kurtz by Michela Wrong

Michela Wrong's vivid narrative exposes Mobutu Sese Seko's thirty-year plunder of Zaire, tracing how a resource-rich nation was transformed into a lawless kleptocracy. Blending sharp journalism and personal travelogue, it charts Mobutu's rise through Western backing, his extravagant self-enrichment, and the decay of national infrastructure. The book captures a tragic cycle of systemic corruption, international complicity, and final collapse as rebel forces ended his tyrannical reign.