By David Renton, Leo Zeilig, David Seddon
ISBN-10: 1842774859
ISBN-13: 9781842774854
This e-book strains the tale of the Congo from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury around the quarter within the nineteenth century, to the Western backed homicide of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 to the battle that has ravaged the rustic considering the fact that 1997. it's an immensely readable and radical creation to the Congo that can pay consciousness to the significance of monetary construction for social association through the country's contemporary background. It additionally argues that the character of worldwide capitalism, faraway from constantly resulting in modernization, can in reality suggest the growth of personal capital observed via social cave in. As for the long run, the wish is that one other politics will emerge from the resistance of normal Congolese to imperialist slaughter and the post-independence Mobutu dictatorship.
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In Casement was appointed to a post at the Colonial Office, working for the Niger Coast Protectorate. Then in autumn Casement was sent back to the Congo as British Consul. It was a position of some considerable authority. Sent by the government to answer the colony’s critics, Casement found everywhere the signs of a people dying. Fields were deserted. The surviving people complained bitterly of floggings and of the rubber tax. Casement was convinced that Léopold’s whole project the congo was unjust.
King Léopold invested in the French scheme. French bankers invested back in the Belgian empire. Concessions were held by and in British firms. Many commentators have studied the economic processes that drove the conquest of Africa. 53 Colonialism was simply another expression, in a grander form, of the general tendency towards competition between businesses that was typical of a capitalist system. The British historian Eric Hobsbawm has argued that Léopold was motivated rather by a search for consumers, to purchase excess Belgian goods.
57 In , the Belgian anti-slavery activist Alphonse Jacques warned of the ‘complete extinction’ of the Congolese people. Such language may seem extreme, yet there is no doubt that the advent of Léopold’s colonialism was a disaster for the local population. Famine combined with disease and the introduction of forced labour. The demographic evidence shows an extraordinary rate of killing. 58 As a proportion of the total population (the numbers that could have been killed) such a number is comparable to the wellknown genocides of the twentieth century, the Nazi Holocaust, the murders in Rwanda.
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