Justin Podur is an Associate Professor at York University, Canada.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: I am not an Africanist.- Chapter 2. The politician’s words against the empire’s weapons.- Chapter 3. Sow doubt, aestheticize, essentialize: How to write about African leaders.- Chapter 4. Killing hope in the Congo.- Chapter 5. The agency’s kingmaker.- Chapter 6. The revolutionary and the white supremacist.- Chapter 7. The tyrant subcontractors: America’s chosen African dictators, 1965-1985.- Chapter 8. Economic poison: Western economic medicine before the Rwanda genocide and Congo wars of the 1990s.- Chapter 9. The peacekeeper and the warlord  .- Chapter 10. Good and evil: How Africanists present Hutus as deserving of death.- Chapter 11. The infrastructure of judgment and denial.- Chapter 12. The state Kagame built.- Chapter 13. Stories from the African Mind.- Chapter 14. The front men and the refugees: The Congo War 1996-7.- Chapter 15. The nuance to protect an empire.- Chapter 16. The warlord’s aide and the broken alliance: The 1998-2003 CongoWar.- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire’s system for Central Africa.

Justin Podur is an Associate Professor at York University, Canada.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: I am not an Africanist.- Chapter 2. The politician’s words against the empire’s weapons.- Chapter 3. Sow doubt, aestheticize, essentialize: How to write about African leaders.- Chapter 4. Killing hope in the Congo.- Chapter 5. The agency’s kingmaker.- Chapter 6. The revolutionary and the white supremacist.- Chapter 7. The tyrant subcontractors: America’s chosen African dictators, 1965-1985.- Chapter 8. Economic poison: Western economic medicine before the Rwanda genocide and Congo wars of the 1990s.- Chapter 9. The peacekeeper and the warlord  .- Chapter 10. Good and evil: How Africanists present Hutus as deserving of death.- Chapter 11. The infrastructure of judgment and denial.- Chapter 12. The state Kagame built.- Chapter 13. Stories from the African Mind.- Chapter 14. The front men and the refugees: The Congo War 1996-7.- Chapter 15. The nuance to protect an empire.- Chapter 16. The warlord’s aide and the broken alliance: The 1998-2003 CongoWar.- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire’s system for Central Africa.

Justin Podur is an Associate Professor at York University, Canada.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: I am not an Africanist.- Chapter 2. The politician’s words against the empire’s weapons.- Chapter 3. Sow doubt, aestheticize, essentialize: How to write about African leaders.- Chapter 4. Killing hope in the Congo.- Chapter 5. The agency’s kingmaker.- Chapter 6. The revolutionary and the white supremacist.- Chapter 7. The tyrant subcontractors: America’s chosen African dictators, 1965-1985.- Chapter 8. Economic poison: Western economic medicine before the Rwanda genocide and Congo wars of the 1990s.- Chapter 9. The peacekeeper and the warlord  .- Chapter 10. Good and evil: How Africanists present Hutus as deserving of death.- Chapter 11. The infrastructure of judgment and denial.- Chapter 12. The state Kagame built.- Chapter 13. Stories from the African Mind.- Chapter 14. The front men and the refugees: The Congo War 1996-7.- Chapter 15. The nuance to protect an empire.- Chapter 16. The warlord’s aide and the broken alliance: The 1998-2003 CongoWar.- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire’s system for Central Africa.