Naming colonialism : history and collective memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 / Osumaka Likaka.
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TextSeries: Africa and the diasporaPublication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Colonization
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization
- Kongo language -- Epithets
- Nicknames -- Congo (Brazzaville) -- History
- Nicknames -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History
- Kongo (Langue) -- Épithètes
- Surnoms -- Congo -- Histoire
- Surnoms -- Congo (République démocratique) -- Histoire
- HISTORY
- Colonialisme
- Histoire
- Tradition orale
- Lexicologie
- Congo (Kinshasa)
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Colonization
- Nicknames
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Kolonisation
- Übername
- Kollektives Gedächtnis
- Demokratische Republik Kongo
- Republik Kongo
- Kolonialismus -- Rassenbeziehung -- Kongo (Republik) -- Geschichte 19. Jh
- Kolonialismus -- Rassenbeziehung -- Kongo (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Rassenbeziehung -- Kolonialismus -- Kongo (Republik) -- Geschichte 19. Jh
- Rassenbeziehung -- Kolonialismus -- Kongo (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Smeknamn -- Kongo (Kinshasa)
- Öknamn -- Kongo (Kinshasa)
- Imperialism -- historia
- Kongo (Kinshasa) -- historia
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- DT546.265 .L55 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Naming and African voices -- The dynamics of naming in precolonial Congo: an overview -- Colonialism and the village world: contexts to naming -- Naming, colonialism, making history, and social memories -- Early naming, explorations, trade, and rubber collection -- Naming and Belgian colonial rule -- Talking under one's breath: praise names as strategic ambiguities -- Confronting African voices: negotiations and instrumentalization of names -- Conclusions.
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What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administra.
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