ABSTRACT

In The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War award-winning journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa has been the single most destructive element in the continent's history. He argues that the catastrophes that have erupted since the end of the Cold War are a legacy of that long foreign involvement, and that stab

part One|78 pages

Empty Promises

chapter 1|28 pages

Sell The Silver, Steal The Gold

Mobutuand and Zaire

chapter 2|26 pages

The Skull beneath the Skin

Angola and the Cold War

chapter 3|22 pages

Great Game, Dirty Game

The United States and Liberia

part Two|80 pages

The Time of the Soldier

chapter 4|16 pages

Whispers and Screams

Tribes and Armies in Burundi

chapter 5|18 pages

A City on the Lake

The Creation of Hutu and Tutsi

chapter 6|22 pages

Juggling the Juntas

Zaire, Nigeria, and Military Rule

chapter 7|22 pages

The Deadly Harvest

Liberia At War

part Three|90 pages

Blood of the Ancestors

chapter 8|23 pages

Myths, Chiefs, and Churches

Rwanda

chapter 9|33 pages

Genocide

chapter 10|32 pages

The Spit of the Toad

Zaire, Kenya, and the Abuse of Tradition

part Four|78 pages

New World, Old Order

chapter 11|24 pages

“Rogue” States and Radicals

The United States and Sudan

chapter 12|30 pages

The Mogadishu Line

The United Nations and Somalia

chapter 13|20 pages

France, Africa, and a Place Called Fashoda

chapter |7 pages

Epilogue

The Center Cannot Hold