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Title: | The Politics of Apoliticality: Form and Progress in a Lower Congo Regional Council |
Author: | Janzen, John M. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 36 |
Pages: | 570-599 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | professional associations nationalism Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1969.3183 |
Abstract: | In 1958 an urban-baaed group of teachers, traders, workers, and lower-echelon civil servants, originating from the rural territoire of Luozi north of the Congo river - known as 'the Manianga' - formed the Manianga Superior Council. The Council was to be an apolitical association, modeled after the early Abako, to promote economic, social, political (sic), and moral development of the Manianga people. In its earliest phase the Council operated most clearly as a regional coordinating extension of the ABAKO. Nevertheless, a specifically Maniangan regionalist sentiment became a growing reality. In time, too, a characteristic pattern of political process emerged as the institutional form of this regionalist sentiment: a situational factionalism recruited variously along lines of social age gaps, differential participation in government, and the rural-urban interest dichotomy, marked by a sequence of internal coups reflecting the shift of power from one sector of the society to another. The author gives a closer analysis of these regional micropolitice. Notes, charts. |