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      Political consciousness among African peasants in the Belgian Congo

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            Peasant political consciousness in the Belgian Congo took a variety of forms ranging from millenial religious movements to disobeying instructions, to flight into the forest, various forms of ‘the refusal to recognize the authority of the colonizer’. They responded to the appropriation of their land and labour‐time by Bula Matari, the colonial administration. The African petite bourgeoisiemobilized both ethnic support and nationalist sentiment in order to gain access to the power of the state. Post‐colonial peasant rebellions, like their predecessors, rejected state authority but lacked a coherent social project of their own.

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            crea20
            CREA
            Review of African Political Economy
            Review of African Political Economy
            0305-6244
            1740-1720
            September-December 1980
            : 7
            : 19
            : 23-32
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            8703438 Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 7, No. 19, September-December 1980, pp. 23-32
            10.1080/03056248008703438
            20f4e877-4250-47d5-afee-14e93f156782

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            Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

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