Che in Africa: Che Guevara's Congo Diary

About this book

A year before his fateful Bolivia mission Che Guevara led a group of guerrillas to support the Congolese liberation movement in 1965. Considerable speculation has always surrounded Guevaras disappearance from Cuba and why he went to fight in Africa. The story behind the Congo mission is now revealed in this book which includes Guevaras previously unpublished "Congo Diary." Guevaras diary assesses the role of figures within the African liberation movements among them Patrice Lumumba and Laurent Kabila leader of the 1997 overthrow of the Mobutu regime in Zaire (Congo). Author William Galvez quotes recently declassified CIA documents showing how the CIA assembled a mercenary band of white South Africans and others to pursue Guevaras guerrilla column.