Central African republic on the north bank of the Congo River; independent from France 1960, capital Brazzaville.
Crawford Young's authoritative survey of fifty years of post-independence African governance situates Cameroon, Chad, and their neighbours in the continent-wide postcolonial story.
Continental context for the equatorial Congo basin states.
One of Mabanckou's most celebrated, internationally prize-recognized novels, narrated from a bar in contemporary Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.