La désobéissance civile des kimbanguistes et la violence coloniale au Congo belge (1921-1959)

Mélice, Anne

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“…It appears that they were increasingly reluctant to tolerate God's whiteness. Nganga Emmanuel (nganga means “priest” in Kikongo; Mélice 2010: 221) decided to leave the Catholic Church after befriending André Matswa. Subsequently, he militated against “inequality” and took part “in the first antiwhite demonstrations” but was, as a result, deported to Chad by the colonial authorities.…”

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Georges Balandier's Africa: postcolonial translations andambiguousreprises

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2018

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This article focuses on Georges Balandier's autobiographical essayAfrique ambiguë(1957). Its translation into English,Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision(1966), provides the basis for an examination of the concept of translation in its linguistic but also, and above all, transcultural dimensions. As a text,Ambiguous Africadoes not quite render the subtlety of the French original but beyond its translational shortcomings, Balandier's book is also shown to conduct an in-depth analysis of late colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa. This era is characterized by a high degree of cultural anxiety on the part of the colonizers and the colonized. Echoing other anti-colonial thinkers of the period – Balandier was a regular contributor toPrésence Africaine– he records the environmental, artistic, psychological,andlinguistic devastation generated by the colonial process in this part of the world. Balandier's assessment is pessimistic, but he identifies the ability of some unassimilated African intellectuals and members of messianic movements such as Matswanism and Kimbanguism to challenge the hegemonic status of the colonial Ur-Text. This emancipative move relies on vernacular intellectual and cultural resources and is driven by an attempt to re-write and translate biblical stories anew. It is argued here that this process of indigenous re-appropriation, however ambiguous it might have been assessed by Balandier, is postcolonial for it bears witness to a partial de-canonization of the colonial source text.

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Georges Balandier's Africa: postcolonial translations andambiguousreprises

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2018

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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Hope, Margin, Example: The Kimbanguist Diaspora in Lisbon

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2015

Religion in Diaspora

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Kongo–Lisbonne : la dialectique du centre et de la périphérie dans l'Église kimbanguiste

Sarró

Mélice

2012

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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In 2009, as the Pope visited Angola, the Portuguese Kimbanguists prepared themselves to receive Simon Kimbangu Kiangani, the spiritual Chief of the Church (living in the Democratic Republic of Congo). According to Kimbanguists themselves, Lisbon is as marginal to Europe as Bethlehem was to the Roman Empire or N'kamba was to the Belgian Congo when, respectively, Jesus Christ and Simon Kimbangu were born. While they are not active proselytizers and do not use "reverse mission" arguments, Kimbanguists insist that Europe hosts a vast amount of "marginalized" people in need of a fresh spirituality. Analysing the Lisbon event, in this paper the authors discuss the dialectics between "centre" and "periphery" (N'kamba and Portugal) and suggest that the Kimbanguist religion must be simultaneously regarded as a mechanism by which Africans reaffirm a presence in the diaspora as well as being a means to orient efforts aimed at reinforcing their spiritual centre in Africa.

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La désobéissance civile des kimbanguistes et la violence coloniale au Congo belge (1921-1959)

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Georges Balandier's Africa: postcolonial translations andambiguousreprises

Georges Balandier's Africa: postcolonial translations andambiguousreprises

Hope, Margin, Example: The Kimbanguist Diaspora in Lisbon

Kongo–Lisbonne : la dialectique du centre et de la périphérie dans l'Église kimbanguiste

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