Congo in de populaire cultuur

Reybrouck, David Van

doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qf1wc.12

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“…The sudden end of Belgian rule brought freedom but also dramatic economic, social, and political consequences, including the assassination of the prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, and the secession of the Katanga region in July 1960. 75 In the immediate aftermath of independence, some Rhodeslis hoped to return once the situation calmed down but were never able to do so: "It seems clear that Congo Jewish businessmen are only too eager to return", noted an officer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in August 1960: "very few will make emigration plans to South America or to Canada or to Los Angeles and Seattle". 76 But this is precisely what soon happened: almost all Rhodeslis, like other settlers, rushed to leave the country and sell what they could of their properties: "Scared to death .…”

Section: Between Holocaust and Decolonizationmentioning

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Tierra prometida: Jews from Rhodes in the Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia, 1910s–1960s*

Miccoli

2024

Jewish Historical Studies

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Tierra prometida: Jews from Rhodes in the Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia, 1910s–1960s*

Miccoli

2024

Jewish Historical Studies

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“…Settler farmers, such as in Australasia, fed themselves and exported meat and other foods back to the centre [254,255]. Plantation colonies produced tropical goods such as sugar and tobacco (and cotton) or rubber (as in the Belgium Congo) or spices (as in the Dutch Indonesia but destroyed local farming practices and local diets [256].…”

Section: Settler and Plantation Farmers Redux: Milking Assetsmentioning

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Perspective Chapter: Caste, Class, Race and Poverty – A Perspective from the Case of Pellagra

C. Williams,

Badenoch,

J. Hill

2024

Sustainable Development

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Pellagra is caused by a diet with little meat or milk and a reliance on maize. Pellagrins suffer from poor cognitive and social skills. Pellagra was cured with nicotinamide (vitamin B3) but before that pellagrins were considered inferior and dangerous degenerates and were known as the “Butterfly Caste” after the characteristic sunburn rash. Quests for meat drove the diaspora “out of Africa” with meat sharing being the social norm. After the domestication of animals “meat elites” across classes, castes, sexes and continents emerged. Nomads migrating to northern Europe created mixed pastoralist-farmer populations whose fermentation cultures and genetic innovations allowed lactose tolerance. Skin lightened as sunlight, needed to synthesise vitamin D. and sunburn was rare. Conquests encouraged their view that they were a superior race rather than that they were blessed with a superior diet. Ruling classes on a high meat diet combined forces with cereal dependant workers (with higher fertility) whilst the “lumpenproletariat” were economic vegetarians. Social contracts broke down with rebellions, but slaves, oppressed sharecroppers and refugees bore and bear the brunt of (subclinical)pellagra often in ex-colonial subjects—to whom dietary reparations could bridge international inequality gaps.

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“…Addressing such cases of "scientific colonialism" (when the knowledge base relevant to a certain country is by default located or curated outside of that specific country) is increasingly becoming an important societal issue fuelled by shifting social and political priorities, the global economics, and the socio-political context of countries and their colonial history among other key drivers (Zizka et al 2021). The colonial history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Central Africa has been described extensively (Freund 1998;Ewans 2001;Van Reybrouck 2015), and the country is also renowned for its unparalleled and threatened biodiversity within the African continent, and within the Sub-Saharan region in particular. A significant part of our contemporary understanding of biodiversity in DRC stems directly from research and surveys made during the colonial era (i.e., until 1960), through fieldwork typically supervised and carried out by visiting or resident, non-indigenous researchers (from Belgium and other countries) enrolling the local indigenous populations on colonized territories then controlled by the Belgian Ministry of Colonies.…”

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The Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apiformes) of the Democratic Republic of Congo curated at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Belgium)

NKULU,

PAULY,

DORCHIN

et al. 2023

Zootaxa

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Natural history collections are a cornerstone of entomology, and the conservation of specimens is the essential prerequisite for the development of research into systematics, biogeography, ecology, evolution and other disciplines. Yet, specimens collected during decades of entomological research conducted in less developed countries across Sub-Saharan Africa on pests, beneficial insects and insect biodiversity in general have largely been exported to be permanently preserved in developed countries, mainly in Europe and the United States of America. This is particularly true for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) diverse wild bee fauna, which has been investigated throughout the colonial period by visiting or resident entomologists and missionaries who have then transferred their collected material primarily to Belgium as part of a wider legacy of scientific exploration and colonialism. Digitizing NHC is one way to mitigate this current bias, by making samples accessible to researchers from the target post-colonial countries as well as to the wider international scientific community. In this study, we compiled and digitized 6,490 specimens records relevant to 195 wild bee species grouped in 18 genera within the biodiverse family Megachilidae, essentially from the colonial era (i.e., mostly between 1905–1960, with additional records up to 1978), and curated at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium. We provide a detailed catalogue of all records with updated locality and province names, including 29 species only available as type specimens. We also explore the historical patterns of diversity and distribution across DRC, and we provide a list of the research entomologists involved. This study is an important first step that uses digital technologies to democratize and repatriate important aspects of DRC’s natural heritage of insect biodiversity, to stimulate more contemporary field surveys and modern taxonomic revisions, as well as to identify and characterize research gaps and biodiversity shortfalls in some of the less-explored regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Congo in de populaire cultuur

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Tierra prometida: Jews from Rhodes in the Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia, 1910s–1960s*

Tierra prometida: Jews from Rhodes in the Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia, 1910s–1960s*

Perspective Chapter: Caste, Class, Race and Poverty – A Perspective from the Case of Pellagra

The Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apiformes) of the Democratic Republic of Congo curated at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Belgium)

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