Congo: background of conflict

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Title:	Congo: background of conflict
Author:	Merriam, Alan P.
Year:	1961
Issue:	6
Pages:	368
Language:	English
Series:	African studies
City of publisher:	Evanston
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Geographic term:	Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:	separatism colonial policy political parties
Abstract:	The author has conducted a 13 month program of ethnological research in the Congo. One could divide the subjects treated by the author into 4 parts. 1. (In the first 4 ch.) The background of the Congolese problem, wherein he discusses the Belgian colonial regime, the Belgian paternalism and its economic, social and exucational results, its failure to build up a Congolese elite which could participate in government and give mature leadership in independence, and the parties and politicians. Secondly he analyses the social climate on the eve of independence, sketching the situation in Staleyville and in Luputa, a village in the 'brousse' in the Kasai Prov. Thirdly he gives a chronology of the period July to 20 Sept. 1960 and he ends with his views on the problems of independence. Appendices. Rev. in Africa, 1962, p. 179-181 by L. de Heusch; Etudes Congolaises, 1961, no.3, p. 44-46; Afr. Affairs, 1962, p. 336-337 by C. Jesman. Jl. of Afr.history, 1964, p. 145-146 by J. Stengers.