All Things Must Fight to Live Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo

by Mealer, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9781596913455
• ISBN10: 1596913452
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Bryan Mealer was born in Odessa, Texas, and spent his childhood in West Texas and San Antonio. He graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and spent time as a city reporter for the Austin Chronicle. He worked as an assistant editor at Esquire magazine in New York City before moving to Nairobi, Kenya, to become a freelance reporter. He later was the Associated Press staff correspondent in Kinshasa, Congo. He now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and contributes to several magazines.

Table of Contents

Map	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
In the Valley of the Gun	p. 1
Daily Blood	p. 49
Waiting for Cobra	p. 96
The River Is a Road	p. 151
"Un Petit Deraillement"	p. 220
Epilogue	p. 293
Acknowledgments	p. 297
A Note on Sources	p. 299
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