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The Lumumba Generation

How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural processes of decolonization in the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of a bourgeois African elite, the book deals w...

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Hovedforfatter: Tödt, Daniel
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: De Gruyter 2021
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Decolonization
Belgian colonies
Évolué
Patrice Lumumba
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
Online adgang:ONIX_20211209_9783110709308_7
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Summary:How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural processes of decolonization in the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of a bourgeois African elite, the book deals with the social identity and cultural self-representations, the daily life and political activism of the so called Évolués.

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