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Title:European memoirs and colonialism in Equatorial Africa: Reflections on the reminiscences of Alfons Vermeulen (1877-1965)
Author:Walraven, Klaas vanISNI
Year:2021
Issue:151
Pages:13
Language:English
Series:ASC working paper
City of publisher:Leiden, The Netherlands
Publisher:African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL)
Geographic terms:Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Congo (Republic of)
Europe
Netherlands
Subjects:colonialism
diaries (form)
About person:Alfons Vermeulen
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3163572
Abstract:Alfons Vermeulen was an employee of the 'Nieuwe Afrikaansche Handels-Vennootschap' (NAHV), the Dutch trading house active in the wider Congo region in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Vermeulen began working as a company agent in 1899 and continued, on and off, in the NAHV's employ for the next 30 years. His writings are, from today's perspective, painful and justifiably contentious. For the professional historian, however, they constitute interesting source material, granted they are carefully contextualised, sifting facts from fiction and the pejorative discourse of colonialism.
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