Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
by
Allen F. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade,...