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Title: | Brazzaville's Marche Total: Women's Alliances during the Civil War in Congo |
Author: | Yengo, Patrice |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 182 |
Pages: | 333-346 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Republic of) |
Subjects: | civil wars market women self-help associations Politics and Government Women's Issues History and Exploration Urbanization and Migration organizations Historical/Biographical urbanization |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.5916 |
Abstract: | The Republic of Congo-Brazzaville experienced a long civil war from 1992 to 2002. The first part of the conflict (1992-1994), which opposed President Pascal Lissouba's supporters to those of Brazzaville's mayor, Bernard Kolélas, took place in the southern areas of the capital and particularly in the district of Bacongo. During this crisis, women often showed a great sense of solidarity among themselves, setting up mutual-help networks, often in the workplace and according to their religious beliefs. This article deals with certain aspects of these new types of networks which women managed to weave, notably associated with their trading activities in the Marché Total, the main market of Bacongo, and also the biggest market in Brazzaville. The Solidarity for Christ mutual aid society is discussed as a notable example. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |