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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.
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