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Paperback A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo Book

ISBN: 025300750X

ISBN13: 9780253007506

A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

(Part of the African Expressive Cultures Series)

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, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's...

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