Nouvelle histoire du Congo
Nouvelle histoire du Congo

Author: Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem

Publisher: Editions Le Cri

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 9782871065067

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À quelques mois de la commémoration du cinquantenaire de l'indépendance du Congo (2010), à trois ans des troisièmes (1960, 2006) ou des quatrièmes (1960, 1964, 2006) - c'est selon - élections libres et démocratiques de ce pays depuis 1960, tous les Congolais ont un besoin impérieux de bien voir le chemin parcouru, les embûches rencontrées, surmontées, évitées ou, au contraire, subies, de mesurer les volontés réaffirmées et les tentatives mises en œuvre dans la voie de l'émancipation ou de la soumission, pour s'engager avec détermination, imagination et audace, sur la route d'un avenir ouvert à toutes les opportunités. L'histoire, en tant que connaissance produite selon des règles et des procédures strictes par des professionnels, ne ressemble aucunement à un parcours automobile, dans lequel le conducteur aurait les yeux rivés sur le rétroviseur. C'est au contraire un parcours dense et riche, où l'on regarde devant soi plutôt que derrière soi, où les bifurcations négligées hier laissent toujours entrouvertes les portes suggérant les possibilités infinies de demain. A ce titre, l'histoire ne se donne donc pas comme une contemplation du passé. Elle est, au contraire, une science enracinée dans le présent et dans les effets qu'elle est capable de produire, tournée vers l'action, une action déterminée, courageuse, inventive et lucide, celle-là même dont le Congo d'aujourd'hui a besoin. (Extrait de la préface d'Elikia M'Bokolo)

Histoire générale du Congo
Histoire générale du Congo

Author: Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem

Publisher: De Boeck Supérieur

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 955

ISBN-13: 9782801111741

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Vaste pays au cœur de l'Afrique, le Congo représente aussi trois mille ans d'aventures humaines. Un cheminement qui a eu ses longues durées et ses accélérations, ses continuités et ses ruptures, ses dynamiques et ses récurrences, au travers d'une évolution globale qui se lit dans les trois étapes successives de la précolonisation, de la colonisation et de la postcolonisation. Cette trajectoire des Congolais, trop facilement maquillée par le théâtre des convulsions contemporaines, apparaît, à la lecture, comme une intelligence nouvelle de cette crise de maturation d'un pays qui demeure malgré tout, la pierre d'angle du décollage économique de l'ensemble de la région. Cette Histoire générale du Congo est une édition revue, complétée et actualisée à la lumière des événements récents en Afrique centrale d'une première Histoire du Zaïre.

La nouvelle histoire du Congo
La nouvelle histoire du Congo

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Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 2296359469

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Le R.P. Frans Bontinck, missionnaire de Scheut et historien, a passé 52 ans de sa vie au Congo. Ces Mélanges, mettant à profit les données fournies aussi bien par les sources écrites européennes et arabes que par la tradition orale, l'archéologie, la linguistique, l'ethnobotanique, l'ethnozoologie, l'art, se voudraient au point de départ d'un vaste programme d'écriture d'une histoire totale, proposant un nouveau regard sur le passé du Congo à travers l'appréhension des faits culturels, économiques, sociaux, démographiques, religieux et politiques.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo. La République Démocratique du Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo. La République Démocratique du Congo

Author: Julien Bobineau

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3643134738

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This interdisciplinary volume brings together English and French language contributions that add to an in-depth picture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's current state of affairs. The authors from various academic fields who research and teach at universities in Africa, Asia and Europe focus on political and economic perspectives, education and civil society, health and environment, the country's international relations as well as historical foundations. They analyse the problems the country is facing but also point out where progress has been made, where possibilities lie - and how these possibilities can come to fruition.

Congo Love Song
Congo Love Song

Author: Ira Dworkin

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1469632721

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In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.

Tombs of the Great Leaders
Tombs of the Great Leaders

Author: Gwendolyn Leick

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1780232268

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A visit to Ankara, Turkey, would include a trip to Anitkabir, the burial site of Turkey’s founder and first president, Ataturk. The massive stone building houses numerous sculptures and a large ceremonial plaza and is surrounded by an elaborate park. Ataturk is far from the only former leader to be remembered by such decorative means. Since the beginning of human history, societies have built tombs and mausoleums to house the remains of people who changed the course of history. These grave sites exist not only as sites of memory for different cultures, but also serve the political needs of subsequent regimes. Tracing the development of the political burial places since the Bronze Age tumuli, Tombs of the Great Leaders explores what attracts pilgrimages to these sites, how politics play out in these locations, how they convey meaning and safeguard a person’s immortality, and how history is commemorated through these structures. Looking in depth at tombs built in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Gwendolyn Leick surveys the history of these modern leaders, their deaths, and the creation of the mausoleums. She traverses the globe, investigating the memorial sites of Communist leaders such as Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Kim Il-Sung; Fascist rulers Franco and Mussolini; and founding fathers of new nations, including Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka, Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi, and Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing. Leick describes the experience of visiting the sites, the responses they elicit, and the context in which they are viewed today. Combining history, architecture, and travel writing, Tombs of the Great Leaders is a revealing study of the self-perpetuation of politicians, despots, and dictators alike.

Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa

Author: Charles M. Fombad

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0192585037

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This collection of essays assesses the efforts of African governments to constitutionalise decentralisation, be it in the form of federalism, local government or traditional authorities. Since the end of the Cold War jurisdictions across Africa have witnessed an ostensible return to multi-party democracy within the paradigm of constitutionalism and the rule of law. Linked to the democratisation process, many countries took steps to decentralize power by departing from the heavily centralized systems inherited from colonial regimes. The centralization of power, typically characterized by the personalization and concentration of power in the hands of leaders and privileged elites in capital cities, mostly resulted in repressive regimes and fragile states. As decentralisation is a response to these challenges, this volume analyses the dynamic relationship between the efforts to implement decentralization and presence or absence of constitutionalism. This volume examines a variety of forms and degrees of decentralization found across Africa. It advances a new understanding of trends and patterns and facilitates the exchange of ideas among African governments and scholars about the critical role that decentralisation may play in democratization of and constitutionalism in Africa.