L Opoldville Kinshasa
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Le Congo Kinshasa
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Author : Jean-Jacques Arthur Malu-Malu
language : fr
Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
Release Date : 2014
Le Congo Kinshasa written by Jean-Jacques Arthur Malu-Malu and has been published by KARTHALA Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Congo (Democratic Republic) categories.
Au Congo-Kinshasa sont souvent associés les nombreux viols commis par des groupes armés et des soldats incontrôlés dans sa partie orientale. Pourtant, la République démocratique du Congo (le nom officiel du Congo-Kinshasa) est un pays complexe, qui ne peut se résumer aux guerres qui ont dévasté une infime partie de son territoire au cours de ces dernières années et qui, pour l'essentiel, dérivent du génocide rwandais de 1994. Ce pays immense dispose d'un sol fertile et d'un sous-sol riche. La RDC est attachante par sa diversité culturelle et artistique, par l'hospitalité légendaire de ses peuples ainsi que par la variété de ses paysages, de sa faune et de sa flore. Dès le XVe siècle, les Portugais coopèrent avec le royaume Kongo. L'or, l'ivoire, le cuivre et les esclaves les intéressent. Il faut attendre la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle pour voir la Belgique, sous la houlette du roi Léopold II, l'emporter sur les autres nations européennes lancées dans une course effrénée à la colonisation. La Conférence de Berlin, qui attribue officiellement le territoire du Congo au roi des Belges en 1885, est une victoire majeure pour Léopold II. Celui-ci ne rêve que d'une chose : accroître la force de frappe économique de la Belgique en exploitant les richesses de cette terre lointaine. L'inexorable marche vers l'indépendance est émaillée de révoltes et de violences. Depuis qu il s'est défait du joug de la colonisation, le 30 juin 1960, le pays a connu des sécessions, des guerres et des assassinats politiques. Quatre présidents se sont succédé jusqu'ici aux commandes du Congo indépendant : Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent-Désiré Kabila et Joseph Kabila. A chacun son style. Mais les grands défis d'hier sont presque les mêmes que ceux d'aujourd'hui. Le plus grand pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne a reculé en termes de développement et tarde à jouer le rôle qui aurait dû lui revenir tout naturellement
Reinventing Order In The Congo
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Author : Theodore Trefon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-02-29
Reinventing Order In The Congo written by Theodore Trefon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-29 with Social Science categories.
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa's second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous 'bargaining' system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education. The NGO-ization of service provision is analysed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. The contributors also look at popular discourses, including street rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to 'big men' such as musicians and preachers. This is urban sociology at its best - richly empirical, unjargonized, descriptive of the lives of ordinary people, and weaving into its analysis how they see and experience life.
Congo
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Congo written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
City Politics
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Author : J. S. La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-30
City Politics written by J. S. La Fontaine and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-30 with History categories.
City Politics is a detailed study of the city of Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville), capital of the Congo, in the years immediately following independence. The book is a study of political leadership in an urban African movement undergoing extremely rapid change. The social and political processes of the city are examined in order to assess how certain citizens achieved political influence and how they maintained themselves in these positions of power. The history of the city, the population structure and the social economic structure of the city are all described in detail to provide the necessary background for the analysis of the political processes identified by the author. This work will be of interest to a wide readership. The description of a period in the process of decolonization of the only Belgian colony in Africa will prove of value to historians and political scientists.
Leopoldville Kinshasa
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Author : Bukassa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Leopoldville Kinshasa written by Bukassa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
The History Of Congo
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Author : Didier Gondola
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-12-30
The History Of Congo written by Didier Gondola and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-30 with History categories.
This book begins with a survey of Congo's early history, when diverse peoples such as the Luba, the Kuba, and the Nilotic inhabited the area, and continues by tracing the country's history through the Belgian period of colonization and the dictatorships of Mobutu and Kabila. Biographical portraits present important figures in Congo's storied history. An annotated bibliography and chronology help make this the most current and accessible introduction to this fascinating, complex, and long-suffering nation. The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, is located at the center of Africa. The country encompasses the entire Congo River Basin, the potential source of 13% of the world's hydroelectric power. The Congo River Basin also contains one-third of Africa's rainforests, countless species of trees, and more then 10,000 species of flowering plants. Congo contains extremely valuable deposits of diamonds and coltan, a metal used in high-tech machinery. Because of this abundance of natural resources, Congo has unfortunately been the site of colonial domination, repressive dictatorships, and internecine violence between rebel groups and neighboring countries.
The Kongo Of My Ancestors
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Author : Fungula Fumu Ngondji
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2011
The Kongo Of My Ancestors written by Fungula Fumu Ngondji and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Do you know what it is that makes you who you are? Is it your name? Your education? Your race, religion, job, or bank account? Or is it your origin, the land of your ancestors, your culture? In The Kongo of My Ancestors, Fungula Fumu Ngondji describes his quest to find out what makes him who he is. Born and raised in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fungula has seen many changes in his home country. Fungula offers a firsthand account of his youth in a traditional Congolese village; his teenage years living in the Congo's capital city, Leopoldville (now called Kinshasa), during the time of Belgium's colonial rule; and his career as an influential journalist, labor organizer, and freedom fighter under Mobutu's dictatorship. Fungula recounts the tragedies inflicted on the people of the Congo through the slave trade, colonization, evangelization, and neocolonialism, as well as his own search for freedom and self-realization. The Kongo of My Ancestors is a powerful, passionate call to action for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and for all the people of Africa and the African diaspora.
Historical Dictionary Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
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Author : Emizet Francois Kisangani
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Historical Dictionary Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo written by Emizet Francois Kisangani and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with History categories.
The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo looks back at the nearly 48 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and even earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the territory. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on civil wars, mutinies, notable people, places, events, and cultural practices.
Kinshasa
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Author : Filip De Boeck
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-24
Kinshasa written by Filip De Boeck and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with Social Science categories.
Reading African cities into contemporary theory—reprint of a richly illustrated reference work In their internationally acclaimed publication Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality lurking underneath the surface of the visible world and explore the constant transactions that take place between these two levels in Kinshasa’s urban scape. With the exhibition that accompanied the release of their Kinshasa book, the authors won a Golden Lion at the 11th International Architecture Bienniale in Venice, 2004. This beautifully illustrated publication is now again made available. Based on longstanding field research, it provides insight into local social and cultural imaginaries, and thus in the imaginative ways in which local urban subjects continue to make sense of their worlds and invent cultural strategies to cope with the breakdown of urban infrastructure.
Travels In The Congo
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Author : André Gide
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Travels In The Congo written by André Gide and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Africa, French-speaking Equatorial categories.