03970nam 2200649Ia 450 991045806440332120200520144314.01-282-55528-697866125552820-299-23643-9(CKB)2560000000014295(OCoLC)644670657(CaPaEBR)ebrary10375886(SSID)ssj0000412647(PQKBManifestationID)11249665(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412647(PQKBWorkID)10367079(PQKB)10376796(MiAaPQ)EBC3444987(MdBmJHUP)muse11987(PPN)23406479X(Au-PeEL)EBL3444987(CaPaEBR)ebr10375886(CaONFJC)MIL255528(EXLCZ)99256000000001429520091006d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBeing colonized[electronic resource] the Kuba experience in rural Congo, 1880-1960 /Jan VansinaMadison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc20101 online resource (357 p.)Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-23644-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Congo: becoming a colony -- The colonial relationship -- Incidental conquest -- Company rule and its consequences -- Were the Kuba nearly wiped out? -- Fifty years of Belgian rule: an overview -- A kingdom preserved -- Village life: 1911-1950s -- In pursuit of harmony -- Visions for a different future -- Toward a new world -- Conclusion: the experience of being colonized.What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers and students as well as to scholars, the distinguished historian Jan Vansina offers not just accounts of colonial administrators, missionaries, and traders, but the varied voices of a colonized people. Vansina uncovers the history revealed in local news, customs, gossip, and even dreams, as related by African villagers through archival documents, material culture, and oral interviews.Vansina’s case study of the colonial experience is the realm of Kuba, a kingdom in Congo about the size of New Jersey—and two-thirds the size of its colonial master, Belgium. The experience of its inhabitants is the story of colonialism, from its earliest manifestations to its tumultuous end. What happened in Kuba happened to varying degrees throughout Africa and other colonized regions: racism, economic exploitation, indirect rule, Christian conversion, modernization, disease and healing, and transformations in gender relations. The Kuba, like others, took their own active part in history, responding to the changes and calamities that colonization set in motion. Vansina follows the region’s inhabitants from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, when a new elite emerged on the eve of Congo’s dramatic passage to independence.Africa and the diaspora.Kuba (African people)Congo (Democratic Republic)Social conditionsCongo (Democratic Republic)ColonizationCongo (Democratic Republic)HistoryTo 1908Congo (Democratic Republic)History1908-1960Electronic books.Kuba (African people)Social conditions.305.896/397Vansina Jan143274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458064403321Being colonized1913751UNINA