By
Christian Filostrat
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Contents
Chapter 1 Mokonzi na Bakonzi (Chief of Chiefs) . . . 6
Chapter 2 The Sly Solution . . . 21
Chapter 3 It's time Kinshasa be like other African capitals . . . 33
Chapter 4 A Monday meeting like any other . . . 43
Chapter 5 Ambassador Molu Sakeseba . . . 46
Chapter 6 "I am proud to have you as my son" . . . 56
Chapter 7 The Dictator takes a foreign minister . . . 67
Chapter 8 What will Mokonzi say? . . . 75
Chapter 9 The Plot against the Dictator . . . 91
Chapter 10 The desperation of Maka M'Gonu . . . 102
Chapter 11 Soeur Angélique of the hundred days . . . 112
Chapter 12 The Tutsi Ambassador . . . 119
PART TWO
Chapter 13 A family business . . . 126
Chapter 14 A gift from Maka M'Gonu . . . 145
Chapter 15 Having the time of her life . . . 153
Chapter 16 Abu Dhabi's last rite . . . 168
Chapter 17 Welcome to Madness . . . 172
Chapter 18 Unheard-of Times . . . 182
Chapter 19 The bound dictator . . . 185 Where there is no head pity the feet. Congolese proverb
Chapter 20 A foreign minister on the lam . . . 189
Chapter 21 The revenge of the Balubas . . . 196
Chapter 22 Uganda to the rescue . . . 206
Chapter 23 Pointe Noire greets Lavrenti Kabilu . . . 208
Chapter 24 The little ship Le Cayor . . . 221
Epilogue. . . 242
Conversation with the author . . . 247
About the Author
Christian Filostrat (see Wikipedia) is the author of The Beggars' Pursuit. The Gospel of Thomas is book one of his Congo trilogy, a novel about U.S. intervention in a papal election, the lives of President Thomas Bremanger and Congolese Cardinal Simon Mulangu, and the fate of reunification of the Christian Churches. The second book in the trilogy, Jerome's Pillows, tells the story of two Belgian nuns in the Congo following WWII.
Variations on Unjust times completes the trilogy.
Negritude the Origin is Christian Filostrat's scholarly work on the newspaper L'Etudiant Noir and the article, Racial consciousness and Social Revolution by Aime Cesaire that launched the Negritude movement in Paris in 1935.
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