All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
- ISBN-10
- 1608196674
- ISBN-13
- 9781608196678
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-01-08
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Bryan Mealer
Description
In All Things Must Fight to Live, Bryan Mealer takes readers on a harrowing two-thousand mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amidst burnt-out battlefields where armies still wrestle for control, into the dark corners of the forests, and along the high savanna, where thousands have been slaughtered and quickly forgotten, Mealer searches for signs that Africa's most troubled state will soon rise from ruin. At once illuminating and startling, All Things Must Fight to Live is a searing portrait of an emerging country facing unimaginable upheaval and almost impossible odds, as well as an unflinching look at the darkness that continues to exist in the hearts of men. It is non-fiction at its finest-powerful, moving, necessary.
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