CPA Missions salesiennes Belgian Congo Kafubu Workshop of mensuisery
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#CPAMissionsSalesiennes #BelgianCongo #Kafubu #WorkshopOfMensuisery #VintagePostcard #MissionaryHistory #ColonialHistory #Collectible #AntiquePostcard #CulturalHeritage
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#JohnNewhouse, “#Inga”
‘At this point along a violent 15 miles of swirling #CongoRiver lies the potential site of the greatest power project on earth. Its development could change Africa’s future...’
*Collier’s*, Feb. 3, 1956
#BelgianCongo #colonialism #developingcountries #1950s
CPA Tourcoing Le Chateau du Congo
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#Tourcoing #ChateauDuCongo #ColonialHistory #BelgianCongo #HistoricalPostcard #VintagePostcard #AfricanHistory #ColonialArchitecture #HeritageSite #OldPhotography #Early20thCentury
CPA Tervueren Musee Du Congo Belge Groupe Salle De l'Alimentation
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#Tervuren #AfricaMuseum #RoyalMuseumForCentralAfrica #BelgianCongo #ColonialHistory #HistoricalPostcard #VintagePostcard #MuseumLife #FoodHall
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1941, a series of #strikes broke out in the #BelgianCongo. The occupation of #Belgium during #WWII pierced an illusion of invincibility, and workers shut down mines across #Congo's south. About a week later, 100 miners were massacred, breaking the #strike.
On May 22, 1960, just two months before the nation's independence, the first general elections were held in the #BelgianCongo. The Mouvement National Congolais, led by Patrice Lumumba, won the most seats with 521,187 votes, representing 23.44% of the total. Voter turnout was notably high at 81.8%.
book cover A Violent History
quote: Giacomo Macola fills a gap in scholarly literature on Central Africa: linking pre-colonial, colonial and the present times, he unravels the long-term mechanisms producing (extreme) violence in this troubled region. - Guy Vanthemsche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The first long-durée history of large-scale violence in the Congo Basin
📙 'A Violent History: Power and Conflict in the Congo Basin from the Nineteenth Century to the Present', by Giacomo Macola
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#Congo #BelgianCongo #Zaire #DRC #Violence #precolonial #colonial #postcolonial
Gust was undoubtedly the most famous and beloved #gorilla of all time. This Western Lowland Gorilla, born in 1952 near Boma in the #BelgianCongo, arrived at the Zoo of #Antwerp in 1953, where he remained an undisputed favorite of the public for 35 years.
"A #BelgianCongo Plan for #Ukraine -- Some have compared 47's proposal to the reparations the victorious allies demanded from Germany after WWI — a demand that yielded very little money to the victors but enraged the Germans and played a role in the rise of Hitler." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine
#JohnNewhouse, “#Inga”
‘At this point along a violent 15 miles of swirling #CongoRiver lies the potential site of the greatest power project on earth. Its development could change Africa’s future...’
*Collier’s*, Feb. 3, 1956
#BelgianCongo #colonialism #developingcountries #1950s
Vintage Postcard Missions salesiennes Belgian Congo Kafubu Workshop of mensuisery
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#SalesianMissions #BelgianCongo #ColonialHistory #ColonialArchitecture #AfricanHistory #ColonialHeritage #HistoricalPhotography #AfricanCraftsmanship #ebay #amazon
Colonial Congo
A History in Questions
Edited by Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro and Guy Vanthemsche
Info: bit.ly/3OUOtBm
#BelgianCongo #CongoFreeState #AfricanStudies #Colonisation #Colonialism #ColonialStudies #Africa
The 1955 Royal Voyage marked King Baudouin's first official visit to the #BelgianCongo.
In 1957, the #BelgianCongo held its first free elections, allowing Congolese cities to choose their own mayors. Voting was restricted to men aged 21 and older.
The Belgians who lived in the modern cities of the #BelgianCongo were in many ways far ahead of their compatriots in #Belgium
The administration of the #BelgianCongo was comprised of the Belgian Ministry of Colonies in #Belgium and the African administration based in #Leopoldville, now known as #Kinshasa. The Belgian Ministry was situated at the Place Royale in #Brussels, adjacent to the Church of St. James on Coudenberg.
The 180-meter-high "Le Marinel" hydroelectric station, located near Kolwezi in the #BelgianCongo, opened in 1956 and produced an average of 1,430 million kWh per year. It was named after Paul Le Marinel, a Belgian explorer known for his expedition to Katanga in 1891.
In 1955, King Baudouin conducted his first official state visit to the #BelgianCongo. Film footage from this journey was later incorporated into Bwana Kitoko, a notable documentary that captured and promoted the era’s vision of the Belgian monarchy’s influence in Congo.
Decorated with copper from #Katanga and #Flemish paintings, the "Congo Palace" was the masterpiece of the #Belgian section of the International Exhibition of #Antwerp in 1930. It gave a comprehensive overview of all Belgian administrative activities in the then #BelgianCongo.
Évolué was a label used during the colonial era to refer to a native African who had "evolved" by becoming Europeanised and had accepted European values and patterns of behavior. The term was also used to describe the native middle class in the #BelgianCongo.
In the 1950s, #Leopoldville (now #kinshasa) in the #BelgianCongo was a significantly more modern city than #Brussels, the capital of Motherland #Belgium
The Colonial Lottery was established in 1934 as a way to generate funds for the economically struggling #BelgianCongo. The inaugural drawing occurred on October 18, 1934. This particular lottery drawing ceremony was filmed during the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels.
In response to a wave of independence movements across several African and Asian nations in the mid-1950s, colonial authorities in the #BelgianCongo implemented reforms to address similar sentiments among the local population. One significant reform was the establishment of multiracial schools.
Established in 1885 under King Leopold II, "The Force Publique" stood as Africa's largest, most formidable, and fearsome military might. Crossing them was ill-advised if one cherished their life. #BelgianCongo
"Paradise lost" means peering through a different looking glass. #BelgianCongo
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The man’s name was Nsala. He had failed to make his daily RUBBER QUOTA, so the BELGIAN-APPOINTED overseers cut off his 5 year old daughter’s hand and foot, then killed her and her mother.
1906 #BelgianCongo
