"From beloved Congolese comics creator Barly Baruti and Belgian comics critic Thierry Bellefroid, translated from the original French by Batchelder Award-winning translator Ivanka Hahnenberger A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire-complete with espionage, murder, and a communist plot to overthrow Zaire's infamous President Mobuto. On October 30, 1974 in the Republic of Zaire, Muhammad ...
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"From beloved Congolese comics creator Barly Baruti and Belgian comics critic Thierry Bellefroid, translated from the original French by Batchelder Award-winning translator Ivanka Hahnenberger A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire-complete with espionage, murder, and a communist plot to overthrow Zaire's infamous President Mobuto. On October 30, 1974 in the Republic of Zaire, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman will fight the biggest boxing match in history-the epic Rumble in the Jungle, watched by over one billion people worldwide. But on the streets of Zaire, now the Republic of Congo, a deeper conflict is at play, as communist and capitalist forces move against each other in secret and corruption under Zaire's president Mobuto threatens to plunge the country-and the Cold War-into chaos. When Ernest, a low-level gangster from Harlem, wins tickets to travel to Zaire and attend the fight, he's eager to reconnect with his African roots and escape the ruthless gang leaders he's indebted to back home. But in Zaire, Ernest becomes entangled in an Angolan coup against Zaire's president Mobuto Sese Suko, inspired by Che Guevara himself -and soon realizes that Zaire may hold even more dangers for him than Harlem ever had. With punchy dialogue, Barly Baruti's characteristic art style, and all the best elements of a great gangster story-sex, spies, bribes, and murder-Chaos in Kinshasa is a grungy, graphic thrill ride through a pivotal moment in Cold War, African, and sports history"--
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