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Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo by Pedro Monaville (review)
In: Journal of global south studies, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 450-452
ISSN: 2476-1419
On the Fringes of Aid: Humanitarian Organisations and Sudanese Refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1966–1972
In: Journal of migration history, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 1-26
ISSN: 2351-9924
Abstract
Thousands of Southern Sudanese refugees fled southward into the Orientale province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the late 1960s. This article examines the challenges posed by fragmentary archival sources from humanitarian organisations, and a small number of interviews, for understanding the actions of Sudanese refugees as they entered a province already battered by civil war. Expatriate staff struggled to negotiate with the Congolese and Sudanese governments, who both wanted to limit the threat of rebels. Furthermore, the particular goals and recordkeeping methods of humanitarian organisations post major challenges for interpreting the sources. However, oral testimonies of former aid workers and refugees demonstrate that Sudanese refugees did clearly shape their journeys and how they negotiated with refugee assistance programmes. This article thus offers new perspectives for researchers on the value and pitfalls of various individual humanitarian agency records.
Humanitarian Aid and Counterinsurgency: The Case of the Simba Revolts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1964–1967
In: The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 229-250
ISSN: 2152-0852
Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa by Steven Press
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 445-447
ISSN: 1527-8050
A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo. By Nancy Rose Hunt
In: Journal of social history, S. shw100
ISSN: 1527-1897
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (review)
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 188-190
ISSN: 1527-8050
Jennifer Anne Boittin, Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti- Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxix, 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0803225459 (pbk.). $36.95 (US)
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 128-130
ISSN: 2041-2827
Ida Vera Simonton's Imperial Masquerades: Intersections of Gender, Race and African Expertise in Progressive‐Era America
In: Gender & history, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 322-340
ISSN: 1468-0424
Ida Vera Simonton, a New York socialite, visited the French colony of Gabon in 1906 and 1907. Her subsequent narratives about her stay demonstrate a very ambiguous view of the horrors of European colonialism that she claimed to despise and the amoral nature of Africans. Simonton ultimately employed her stay in Gabon to claim a right to form female self‐defence squads in New York and to act as an independent defender of white women. By carefully shaping her public persona to alternately appropriate discourses of masculine regeneration through empire and to highlight her female vulnerability, she made herself into a provocative spectacle. In an ironic twist, given how much Simonton embellished on her own experiences, Broadway producers in 1925 plagiarised her 1912 novel Hell's Playground in their successful play White Cargo. Simonton successfully sued for damages, thus upholding her highly edited version of her trip in law. Her writings expose the intersections of racial anxieties, gendered visions of empire and feminist aspirations in the United States during the Progressive era.
' Tata otangani, oga njali, mbiambiè! ': Hunting and Colonialism in Southern Gabon, ca. 1890–1940
In: Journal of colonialism & colonial history, Band 10, Heft 3
ISSN: 1532-5768
Osumaka Likaka, Naming Colonialism: History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. 220 pp., 3 illustrations, 2 maps. ISBN: 9780299233648 (pbk.). $26.95
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 160-162
ISSN: 2041-2827
Searching for Success: Boys, Family Aspirations, and Opportunities in Gabon, ca. 1900-1940
In: Journal of family history: studies in family, kinship and demography, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 7-24
ISSN: 1552-5473
Boys growing up in rural Gabon between 1900 and 1940 negotiated with many challenges: the rise of migrant labor, famines and hardships brought on by World War I, the growth of Christianity and African-based spiritual traditions, and the undermining of clans, which had been the main form of social and political organization in the nineteenth century. Parents, extended family members, missionaries, and European businesses recruited boys to serve their varied interests. Boys in turn developed new self-understandings by leaving their homes as students, workers, and clients of older men. This article examines the life histories of four boys to trace the successes and challenges that individual boys encountered in this turbulent era. Interestingly, older biological relatives of boys generally succeeded in maintaining their authority over children living far from home, although the education and wages that boys received forced older men to offer boys more benefits.
Lord Leverhulme's Ghost: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo (review)
In: Journal of colonialism & colonial history, Band 10, Heft 1
ISSN: 1532-5768
Martin Thomas, The French Empire between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics, and Society. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. xxxii, 408 pp. ISBN: 9780719077555. (pbk.) £19.99. - Gary Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two Wars. Chicago: Uni...
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 156-158
ISSN: 2041-2827
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa, Benjamin Lawrence, Emily Osborn, and Richard Roberts (editors)
In: Africa today, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 106-108
ISSN: 1527-1978