Colonization of Mongo basin :Effects
Date Submitted: 08/06/2004 07:30:38
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 7 pages (2037 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 7 pages (2037 words)
The Congo basin is a vast area of land in Africa which straddles the Equator. Its
historical records begin with the 'discovery of the Congo River by the Potugese'.(Nelson
1994:2) This land was inhabited long before European arrival, the Mongo and other indigenous
people of this area already lived in this area. This essay will delineate the short term and lasting
effects of European Imperialism in the Congo basin in regard mostly to the Mongo.
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…face the atrocities which their ancestors
faced.
Bibliography
Harms, Robert.
1975 'The End of Red Rubber: A Reassessment.' Journal of African History16: 73-88.
Hostelet, Georges
1954 L'Oeuvre civilisatrice de la Belgique au Congo de 1885 a 1953. Brussels:ARSC.
Jolly, Margaret
1994 Women of the Past. Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers.
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1920 'La situation agriculture au Congo belge en 1919.' Bulletin Agricole du Congo.10: 1-23.
Nelson, Samuel H.
1994 Colonialism in the Congo Basin 1880-1940. Athens: Center for International Studies.
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