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A study evaluating state-initiated policies in post-1965 Zaire and their impact on the people. The author claims the basic objectives of agricultural and rural policy have been political, not socio-economic. He calls for mastery of the state in order to halt current underdevelopment.

This timely book, written by a Zairean sociologist, provides a useful evaluation of Zaire's transition from a one party dictatorship to a multiparty democracy. The in-depth causes of this failed transition are rooted in Belgian colonialism and, more importantly, in the nature and the role of the post-colonial state that Mobutu Sese Seko and his associates have engineered and implemented in Zaire for more than three decades. Instead of social p...