Le Colonat Agricole Européen au Congo-Belge, 1910–1960
Questions Politiques et Economiques
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8978063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bogumił Jewsiewicki (Université Laval, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 559-571 |
| Publication date | 1979-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700017540 |
| OpenAlex | W2026135543 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article deals both with the political history and with the economy of European agricultural settlement in the Belgian Congo. It concludes that the role of settler farming in the life of the Congo was essentially political. The colonat was only marginal in a colonial economy long based on the extensive exploitation of African labour by industrial and commercial firms. European agriculture was able to compete neither with big business in labour recruiting, nor with African cultivators in price advantage. Settlers only survived with the benefit of government subsidies and a monopoly over some branches of production. White farming was maintained for political reasons both in peripheral regions of the colony, and on the fringes of the larger cities, but from i960 it was rapidly abandoned. In Rhodesia, under different ecological and historical circumstances, black industrial workers were fed by black agricultural workers. In the Belgian Congo it was the African peasant who fed the industrial worker, though for a mean return
Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Monopoly · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Subsidy · Wage labour · African history and culture studies · History
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2022 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |