Ch Didier Gondola
Biographic Data
| ID | 99236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ch Didier Gondola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ch Didier |
| FAMILY NAME | Gondola |
| SIGNATURE | GONDOLA C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
R obert H arms . Land of Tears
With Land of Tears, Robert Harms takes readers back to the scene of the crime, the Congo basin, an area who’s riverine networks and societies he had so meticulously surveyed in River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500–1891 (1981). Encased in a seemingly impenetrable rainforest, Equatorial Africa’s landscape and climate had kept Europeans at bay from the time they appeared on the Atlan…
Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer. The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa
The history of the Katangese gendarmes, or gendarmes katangais, as they are better known in French, has been truncated in several ways. First, historians have focused only on their military interventions in the 1960s and early 1970s. Second, their role in both Congo and Angola has been compartmentalized and treated separately. Last, but not least, they have been largely relegated to footnotes and considered a minor actor in the political changes …
Tropical Cowboys
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuildi…
Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick. Death in the Congo
In January 1961, after less than six months in office, Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba succumbed to a maelstrom of forces that vied to keep Congo in the clutches of a postcolonial order dictated by capitalism and the Cold War. Neither his hamstrung and ephemeral government nor his dwindling cadre of supporters, both in Congo and abroad, could overcome a web of formidable opponents that his nationalistic rhetoric had riled up. Since then,…
Tropical Cowboys
Social History, Biology, and the Emergence of Hiv in Colonial Africa
This essay considers how historians of Africa can draw from and critically contribute to biomedical debates. Recent virological research has established that the HIV/AIDS pandemic began with the passage of simian immunodeficiency viruses into human populations in the first half of the twentieth century. Current debates on the emergence of HIV are an opportunity for historians to engage with biomedical research to rethink social, political, and en…
“But I Ain’t African, I’m American!”
Maya Angelou, like many black American artists activists, and writerssuch as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Alex Haley, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, among other willing émigrés-chose France in her attempt to escape racism at home and trace back her roots to the African motherland. In their own words, France was portrayed as an oasis of freedom tucked in the middle of an interminable and humiliating wilderness; a temporary harb…
In and Out of Focus
The History of Congo
Preface Introduction The Congo Basin in Ancient and Precolonial Times Colonial Conquest 1885-1890 Leopoldian Congo 1885-1908 Bula Matari 1908-1945 The Crisis of Decolonization 1945-1960 The First Republic 1960-1965 The Second Republic 1965-1990 Democratic Transition 1990-1997 The Third Republic 1997-2001 Epilogue: Africa's First Continental War Appendix: Notable People of the Congo Selected Bibliography Index
Culture and Customs of the Congo
Series Foreword Introduction Chronology, Religion, and Worldview Literature and Media Art and Architecture Cuisine and Dress Marriage, Family, and Gender Social Customs and Life Styles Music and Dance Glossary Selected Bibliography Index
Dream and Drama
This paper deals with fashion (la Sape) and its use among Congolese youth as a vehicle to borrow new identities. La Sape is an ambiguous adventure, a sort of Baudelairian voyage, that leads Congolese youth (Sapeurs), not only from a third world city to Paris and Brussels, but also from social dereliction to psychological redemption. It authenticates and validates their quest for a new social identity which the African city has failed to provide i…
History of Central Africa
C. Didier Gondola, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 2/3, Special Issue: French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations (1999), pp. 708-709
Margaret C. SNYDER et Mary Tadesse, African Women and Development
Élaborés dans les années 1950-1960 par les théoriciens du développement, étoffés par la vague féministe des années 1970 et conceptualisés par les tiers mondistes des années 1980, les thèmes des femmes et du développement concentrent aujourd'hui l'attention des chercheurs et des activistes. Thèmes liés, surtout quand on évoque l'Afrique, leur association permet de donner un relief, qu'on leur a souvent refusé, aux femmes africaines sans voix, colp…
Unies pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Femmes africaines et villes coloniales
Une histoire méconnue ? Celle des femmes africaines, celle de la ville coloniale, ou plutôt celle du métissage qui a présidé à la rencontre des femmes et des cultures urbaines. Une histoire que l'on ne comprend qu'en prenant la mesure du rôle phare des cultures populaires que les femmes ont investi dès que les lois coloniales leur permirent le droit de cité à Kinshasa, à l'origine un campement pour travailleurs célibataires que l'arrivée des femm…
Dream and Drama
This paper deals with fashion (la Sape) and its use among Congolese youth as a vehicle to borrow new identities. La Sape is an ambiguous adventure, a sort of Baudelairian voyage, that leads Congolese youth (Sapeurs), not only from a third world city to Paris and Brussels, but also from social dereliction to psychological redemption. It authenticates and validates their quest for a new social identity which the African city has failed to provide i…
Social History, Biology, and the Emergence of Hiv in Colonial Africa
This essay considers how historians of Africa can draw from and critically contribute to biomedical debates. Recent virological research has established that the HIV/AIDS pandemic began with the passage of simian immunodeficiency viruses into human populations in the first half of the twentieth century. Current debates on the emergence of HIV are an opportunity for historians to engage with biomedical research to rethink social, political, and en…
The History of Congo
Preface Introduction The Congo Basin in Ancient and Precolonial Times Colonial Conquest 1885-1890 Leopoldian Congo 1885-1908 Bula Matari 1908-1945 The Crisis of Decolonization 1945-1960 The First Republic 1960-1965 The Second Republic 1965-1990 Democratic Transition 1990-1997 The Third Republic 1997-2001 Epilogue: Africa's First Continental War Appendix: Notable People of the Congo Selected Bibliography Index
History of Central Africa
C. Didier Gondola, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 2/3, Special Issue: French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations (1999), pp. 708-709
Unies pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Femmes africaines et villes coloniales
Une histoire méconnue ? Celle des femmes africaines, celle de la ville coloniale, ou plutôt celle du métissage qui a présidé à la rencontre des femmes et des cultures urbaines. Une histoire que l'on ne comprend qu'en prenant la mesure du rôle phare des cultures populaires que les femmes ont investi dès que les lois coloniales leur permirent le droit de cité à Kinshasa, à l'origine un campement pour travailleurs célibataires que l'arrivée des femm…
Margaret C. SNYDER et Mary Tadesse, African Women and Development
Élaborés dans les années 1950-1960 par les théoriciens du développement, étoffés par la vague féministe des années 1970 et conceptualisés par les tiers mondistes des années 1980, les thèmes des femmes et du développement concentrent aujourd'hui l'attention des chercheurs et des activistes. Thèmes liés, surtout quand on évoque l'Afrique, leur association permet de donner un relief, qu'on leur a souvent refusé, aux femmes africaines sans voix, colp…
Unies pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Femmes africaines et villes coloniales
Une histoire méconnue ? Celle des femmes africaines, celle de la ville coloniale, ou plutôt celle du métissage qui a présidé à la rencontre des femmes et des cultures urbaines. Une histoire que l'on ne comprend qu'en prenant la mesure du rôle phare des cultures populaires que les femmes ont investi dès que les lois coloniales leur permirent le droit de cité à Kinshasa, à l'origine un campement pour travailleurs célibataires que l'arrivée des femm…
Dream and Drama
This paper deals with fashion (la Sape) and its use among Congolese youth as a vehicle to borrow new identities. La Sape is an ambiguous adventure, a sort of Baudelairian voyage, that leads Congolese youth (Sapeurs), not only from a third world city to Paris and Brussels, but also from social dereliction to psychological redemption. It authenticates and validates their quest for a new social identity which the African city has failed to provide i…
History of Central Africa
C. Didier Gondola, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 2/3, Special Issue: French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations (1999), pp. 708-709
The History of Congo
Preface Introduction The Congo Basin in Ancient and Precolonial Times Colonial Conquest 1885-1890 Leopoldian Congo 1885-1908 Bula Matari 1908-1945 The Crisis of Decolonization 1945-1960 The First Republic 1960-1965 The Second Republic 1965-1990 Democratic Transition 1990-1997 The Third Republic 1997-2001 Epilogue: Africa's First Continental War Appendix: Notable People of the Congo Selected Bibliography Index
Culture and Customs of the Congo
Series Foreword Introduction Chronology, Religion, and Worldview Literature and Media Art and Architecture Cuisine and Dress Marriage, Family, and Gender Social Customs and Life Styles Music and Dance Glossary Selected Bibliography Index
In and Out of Focus
“But I Ain’t African, I’m American!”
Maya Angelou, like many black American artists activists, and writerssuch as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Alex Haley, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, among other willing émigrés-chose France in her attempt to escape racism at home and trace back her roots to the African motherland. In their own words, France was portrayed as an oasis of freedom tucked in the middle of an interminable and humiliating wilderness; a temporary harb…
Social History, Biology, and the Emergence of Hiv in Colonial Africa
This essay considers how historians of Africa can draw from and critically contribute to biomedical debates. Recent virological research has established that the HIV/AIDS pandemic began with the passage of simian immunodeficiency viruses into human populations in the first half of the twentieth century. Current debates on the emergence of HIV are an opportunity for historians to engage with biomedical research to rethink social, political, and en…
Tropical Cowboys
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuildi…
Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick. Death in the Congo
In January 1961, after less than six months in office, Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba succumbed to a maelstrom of forces that vied to keep Congo in the clutches of a postcolonial order dictated by capitalism and the Cold War. Neither his hamstrung and ephemeral government nor his dwindling cadre of supporters, both in Congo and abroad, could overcome a web of formidable opponents that his nationalistic rhetoric had riled up. Since then,…
Tropical Cowboys
Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer. The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa
The history of the Katangese gendarmes, or gendarmes katangais, as they are better known in French, has been truncated in several ways. First, historians have focused only on their military interventions in the 1960s and early 1970s. Second, their role in both Congo and Angola has been compartmentalized and treated separately. Last, but not least, they have been largely relegated to footnotes and considered a minor actor in the political changes …
R obert H arms . Land of Tears
With Land of Tears, Robert Harms takes readers back to the scene of the crime, the Congo basin, an area who’s riverine networks and societies he had so meticulously surveyed in River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500–1891 (1981). Encased in a seemingly impenetrable rainforest, Equatorial Africa’s landscape and climate had kept Europeans at bay from the time they appeared on the Atlan…
History (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)