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Author : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780329393
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis The Congo from Leopold to Kabila by : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Download or read book The Congo from Leopold to Kabila written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over many years to establish democratic institutions at home and free themselves from foreign exploitation; indeed these are two aspects of a single project. Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja is one of his country's leading intellectuals and his panoramic understanding of the personalities and events, as well as class, ethnic and other factors, make his book a lucid, radical and utterly unromanticized account of his countrymen's struggle. His people's defeat and the state's post-colonial crisis are seen as resulting from a post-independence collapse of the anti-colonial alliance between the masses and the national leadership . This book is essential reading for understanding what is happening in the Congo and the Great Lakes region under the rule of the late President Kabila, and now his son. It will also stand as a milestone in how to write the modern political history of Africa.
Author : Jean Stengers
Publisher : Racine Lannoo
ISBN 13 : 9782873864064
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)
Book Synopsis Congo by : Jean Stengers
Download or read book Congo written by Jean Stengers and published by Racine Lannoo. This book was released on 2005 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Stengers s'est occupé de Léopold II et du Congo durant quarante ans au moins. Il a longuement travaillé à la fois dans les archives étrangères et dans les archives belges. Ce qu'il nous offre ici est un ensemble d'études qui couvrent un siècle d'histoire: elles vont du 17 février 1860 - date du premier discours colonial du futur Léopold II - jusqu'à l'indépendance du Congo, le 30 juin 1960. On y trouve abordés la plupart des aspects majeurs de la politique du Roi, puis de la Belgique. Ces aspects majeurs sont souvent aussi des aspects controversés. L'auteur s'attache, là où il rencontre des conceptions légendaires, que ce soient des légendes dorées ou des légendes noires, à les démythifier, avec la seule volonté de restituer la vérité du passé. Quatre études traitent de thèmes généraux: la formation de la pensée coloniale de Léopold II, la création de l'Etat indépendant du Congo, l'évolution de cet Etat et du Congo belge jusqu'en 1914, et enfin la période coloniale et l'histoire de la décolonisation de 1914 à 1960. Elles sont complétées par des éclairages jetés sur quatre questions importantes: l'Acte de Berlin, la campagne anglaise contre le Congo, le rôle de la Commission d'enquête de 1904-1905, et la décision de reprise du Congo par la Belgique.
Author : Jean Stengers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782390251415
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (514 download)
Book Synopsis Congo by : Jean Stengers
Download or read book Congo written by Jean Stengers and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Viaene
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462701423
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Book Synopsis Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 by : Vincent Viaene
Download or read book Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 written by Vincent Viaene and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in today’s Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries and Marian shrines of the Catholic Church to the Islamic brotherhoods, from the healers of Kimban-guism to the televangelism of the booming Pentecostalist churches in the great cities, from the Orthodox communities of Kasai to the ‘invisible’ Mai Mai warriors in the brousse of Kivu. During the colonial period religion was no less central to people’s lives than it is today. More surprisingly, behind the seemingly smooth facade of missions linked closely to imperial power, faith and worship were already marked by diversity and dynamism, tying the Congo into broader African and global movements. The contributions in this book provide insight into the multifaceted history of the interaction between religion and colonization. The authors outline the institutional political framework, and focus on the challenge that old and new forms of slavery entailed for the missions. The atrocities committed at the time of the Congo Free State became an existential question for young Christian communities. In the Belgian Congo after 1908, more structural forms of colonial violence remained a key issue marking religious experiences. And yet, religion also acted as a bridge. The authors emphasize the role intermediaries such as catechists or medical assistants played in the African “appropriation” of Christianity. They examine the complex interaction with indigenous religious beliefs and practices, and zoom in on the part religions played in the independence movement, as well as on their reaction to independence itself. Coming at a moment when Belgium confronts its colonial past, this volume provides a timely reassessment of religion as a key factor.
Author : Henri Brunschwig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Mythes Et Réalités de L'impérialisme Colonial Français, 1871-1914 by : Henri Brunschwig
Download or read book Mythes Et Réalités de L'impérialisme Colonial Français, 1871-1914 written by Henri Brunschwig and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Pavlakis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171942
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Book Synopsis British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896-1913 by : Dean Pavlakis
Download or read book British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896-1913 written by Dean Pavlakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congo Free State was under the personal rule of King Leopold II of the Belgians from 1885 to 1908. The accolades that attended its founding were soon contested by accusations of brutality, oppression, and murderous misrule, but the controversy, by itself, proved insufficient to prompt changes. Starting in 1896, concerned men and women used public opinion to influence government policy in Britain and the United States to create space for reforming forces in Belgium itself to pry the Congo from Leopold’s grasp and implement reforms. Examining key factors in the successes and failures of a pivotal movement that aided the colonized people of the Congo and broadened the idea of human rights, British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement provides a valuable update to scholarship on the history of humanitarianism in Africa. The Congo Reform movement built on the institutional experience of overseas humanitarianism, the energy of evangelical political involvement, and innovations in racial, imperial, and nationalist discourse to create political energy. Often portrayed as the efforts of a few key people, especially E.D. Morel, this book demonstrates that the movement increasingly manifested itself as an institutionalized and transnational campaign with support from key government officials that ultimately made a material difference to the lives of the people of the Congo.
Author : Michael F. Palo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395857
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Book Synopsis Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies by : Michael F. Palo
Download or read book Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies written by Michael F. Palo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael F. Palo explains how a historical and theoretical examination of Belgian neutrality, 1839-1940, can help readers understand the behaviour of small/weak democracies in the international system.
Author : K. Dunn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140397926X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Book Synopsis Imagining the Congo by : K. Dunn
Download or read book Imagining the Congo written by K. Dunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship.
Author : Marcel Yabili
Publisher : Yabili
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)
Book Synopsis The Greatest Fake News of All Time by : Marcel Yabili
Download or read book The Greatest Fake News of All Time written by Marcel Yabili and published by Yabili. This book was released on with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congo's past is painted as a gallery of horrors! Looting of King Leopold, a precursor to Hitler and Stalin! Holocaust, hands cut off, whipping, red rubber, forced labour, etc. In fact, all these atrocities have been fueled by interested foreigners. For the first time, a well documented Congolese tests the accuracy of all told and untold stories. His captivating work reveals how major issues have been changed and outright falsified. Why? There is an underlying racism. That is gripping! This book is the first volume of a Trilogy that unfolds major, continuous, and disgraceful fake news (Vol 1), puts King Leopold on trial with XXIst century criteria (Vol 2), and tells 135 years of comprehensive and dignified history (Vol 3)! Indeed, the truth about the Congo’s past comes from Congolese living in the Congo ! The author, Marcel Yabili, is a lawyer. He has been living and acting permanently in the Congo for 50 years. He shares his testimonies and observations in scientific, literary, and artistic works, articles and blogs, as well as in his family museum of collective memory.
Author : Matthew G. Stanard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803239882
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Book Synopsis Selling the Congo by : Matthew G. Stanard
Download or read book Selling the Congo written by Matthew G. Stanard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908. For the next half century Belgium not only ruled an African empire but also, through widespread, enduring, and eagerly embraced propaganda, produced an imperialist-minded citizenry. Selling the Congo is a study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with particular emphasis on the period 1908–60. Matthew G. Stanard questions the nature of Belgian imperialism in the Congo and considers the Belgian case in light of literature on the French, British, and other European overseas empires. Comparing Belgium to other imperial powers, the book finds that pro-empire propaganda was a basic part of European overseas expansion and administration during the modern period. Arguing against the long-held belief that Belgians were merely “reluctant imperialists,” Stanard demonstrates that in fact many Belgians readily embraced imperialistic propaganda. Selling the Congo contributes to our understanding of the effectiveness of twentieth-century propaganda by revealing its successes and failures in the Belgian case. Many readers familiar with more-popular histories of Belgian imperialism will find in this book a deeper examination of European involvement in central Africa during the colonial era.
Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760785202
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)
Book Synopsis King Leopold's Ghost by : Adam Hochschild
Download or read book King Leopold's Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author : Emmanuel Gerard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674745361
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Book Synopsis Death in the Congo by : Emmanuel Gerard
Download or read book Death in the Congo written by Emmanuel Gerard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the second half of the twentieth century. When Belgium relinquished colonial control in June 1960, a charismatic thirty-five-year-old African nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became prime minister of the new republic. Yet stability immediately broke down. A mutinous Congolese Army spread havoc, while Katanga Province in southeast Congo seceded altogether. Belgium dispatched its military to protect its citizens, and the United Nations soon intervened with its own peacekeeping troops. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, both the Soviet Union and the United States maneuvered to turn the crisis to their Cold War advantage. A coup in September, secretly aided by the UN, toppled Lumumba’s government. In January 1961, armed men drove Lumumba to a secluded corner of the Katanga bush, stood him up beside a hastily dug grave, and shot him. His rule as Africa’s first democratically elected leader had lasted ten weeks. More than fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Lumumba’s assassination still trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick pursue events through a web of international politics, revealing a tangled history in which many people—black and white, well-meaning and ruthless, African, European, and American—bear responsibility for this crime.
Author : Fabian Klose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107075513
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention by : Fabian Klose
Download or read book The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention written by Fabian Klose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the emergence and development of humanitarian intervention from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Drawing from a multitude of disciplines, it investigates the complex and controversial debates over the legitimacy of protecting humanitarian norms and universal human rights by violent as well as non-violent means.
Author : Paul Belien
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845406419
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Book Synopsis A Throne in Brussels by : Paul Belien
Download or read book A Throne in Brussels written by Paul Belien and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Author : Frits Andersen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771248544
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)
Book Synopsis The Dark Continent? by : Frits Andersen
Download or read book The Dark Continent? written by Frits Andersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture--with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congo reform movement--the first international human rights movement--spread horror stories that still have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies, reports and novels, from Stanley's travelogues and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Herge's Tintin and Burroughs' Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The Dark Continent? proposes that the West's attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid and intervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative forms that have evolved since 1870.
Author : Thomas Hendriks
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022477
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Book Synopsis Rainforest Capitalism by : Thomas Hendriks
Download or read book Rainforest Capitalism written by Thomas Hendriks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new ways to understand the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction.
