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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Belgian Congo"”.
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The Representation of Natives in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
… infected by the spirit of bestial rapine in the Belgian Congo. But once one gets past the stoical restraint of Marlow, and his myopic vision of the natural world, one finds a strangely appealing morality, an appalled vision. Because of Conrad's janiformity, one has to avoid a reductive approach …
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Marking Territory: demarcation of the DRC-Zambia boundary from 1894 to the present day
From 1911 to 1914 an Anglo-Belgian boundary commission demarcated some 800 km of the boundary between the Congo Free State and Northern Rhodesia with 46 boundary markers. As was common practice across most British colonial boundaries in Africa prior to 1914, the process of demarcation was an …
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The Commission for the Protection of the Natives and Belgian Colonialism (1908-1957)
… colonial advice and ‘watch dog’ organ in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960). It is seen as a formal institution, acting as an intermediary between the Congolese population and the Belgian colonisers; between colonial practitioners on the ground and officials; and between the Congo and Belgium. It …
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The creation of a national identity: construction and representations with a case study of Mobutu's Zaire
… has lived on. The shift to independence from Belgian Congo to Zaire marked the reclamation of not only an African identity but the African voice. While his rule was characterised by patronage politics and corruption, Mobutu effectively developed a counterhegemonic discourse on the Congo …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
… was deeply influenced by his experiences in the Belgian Congo. In the conclusion I consider reasons why New Left engagement with the sub-Saharan African context went into rapid decline from the late-1980s onwards. I show that the very thing that fascinated New Left thinkers about Africa in …
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State, Resources and the Development of Modern Manufacturing in Zambia, 1924-1973
… with leading manufacturing outputs, specifically Belgian Congo, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, which had output levels in 1960 of 14%, 16% and 21%, respectively. However, as this dissertation argues, those evaluating the manufacturing output of Zambia failed to include the output of …