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- Premiss:
- At the close of 1960, the newly‑formed independent African state of Katanga recruited mercenaries to suppress an indigenous rebellion of fierce warriors rumoured to be cannibals and known to torture and dismember enemy soldiers.
- Themes:
- Aggression | Alienation | Civilization | Cowardice | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Ethnicity | Freedom | Identity | Nationality | Personal | Political | Political Correctness | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Solipsism | The West | Western culture | White culture | White people | White privilege | White supremacy
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The last days of Caucasian empire: Götterdämmerung
Summary: Caucasians pretending to love those they openly‑despise.
Aside from the usual White supremacist hypocrisy of the author – so typical of White people who claim to love an Africa whose people they are only too willing to exploit, murder & rape – this is compelling‑because‑based‑upon‑experience account of a failed revolutionary war in early 1960s Africa.
We get a real sense of life lived on active service
and in action
as a group of European mercenaries come to the aid of Moïse Tshombe in the break‑away African State of Katanga. The psychological realism is superbly‑detailed as only a first‑hand account could ever be.
What this book lacks, given that it is written by a White person with an amoral euro‑centric point‑of‑view, is any real sense of the damage inflicted upon Africa by Whites along with the absurd undercurrent that Whites benefited Africa in some inexplicable and mysterious way.
This book would make a good, charcter‑based tv series only if its central political fallacies were openly‑critiqued and a more objective historical perspective applied.
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