Che in Africa : Che Guevara's Congo diary /
William Gálvez ; translated by Mary Todd.
- Melbourne ; New York, NY : Chicago IL, USA : Ocean Press ; Ocean Press distributor, United States, LPC/In Book, c1999.
- 307, [5] pages of plates: illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (page 309).
1 December 1964 - April 1965 -- 2 May 1965 -- 3 June 1965 -- 4 July 1965 -- 5 August 1965 -- 6 September 1965 -- 7 October 1965 -- 8 November 1965 -- 9 December 1965 - February 1966 Che's epilogue -- 10 Che's departure from Africa --
"Che in Africa is the previously untold story of Che Guevara's "lost year" in Africa. A year before his fateful Bolivia mission, Che Guevara lead a group of guerrillas to support the Congolese liberation movement in 1965. Considerable speculation has always surrounded Guevara's disappearance from Cuba and why he went to fight in Africa. The story behind the Cong mission is now revealed in this book, which includes Guevara's previously unpublished "Congo Diary." Guevara's 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 Gálvez quotes recently declassified CIA documents showing how the CIA assembled a mercenary band of white South Africans and others to pursue Guevara's guerrilla column." From back of book.