Also to be found here are France 's struggle with Algeria -LRB- the subject of 3,000 books and 35 films , according to the author -RRB- ; the role and martyrdom of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo ; Che Guevara 's frustrating foray into Africa after Cuba 's revolution ; the first stirrings of an Islamic jihad in Africa ; and the disastrous miscalculations behind American intervention in Somalia .