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Title: | Political Consciousness among the African Peasantry in the Belgian Congo |
Author: | Jewsiewicki, Bogumil |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 19 |
Period: | September-December |
Pages: | 23-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Belgium |
Subjects: | farmers colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248008703438 |
Abstract: | Peasant political consciousness in the Belgian Congo took a variety of forms ranging from millenial religious movements to disobeying instructions, to flight into the forest, etc. The African petite bourgeoisie mobilized both ethnic support and nationalist sentiment in order to gain access to the power of the state. Post-colonial peasant rebellions, like their predecessors, rejected state authority but lacked a coherent social project of their own. Bibliogr. |