This dissertation seeks to identify those biblical principles of the Church which are to be regarded as normative for all churches in all contexts. The aim is to provide missionary church planters with a point of reference against which they may evaluate the progress of their wo…
Dans mon étude intitulée Place et fonction du conte et de l'épopée dans le théâtre contemporain d'Afrique noire francophone, je me suis penchée sur les nouvelles formes de théâtre apparues en terre africaine depuis la décolonisation. En retenant des œuvres formellement novatrice…
In the process of reading, modern literary texts often change shape. The myth of Proteus, the ancient sea-god whose disguises ware meant to deceive his followers, has offered me an analogy which has brought into focus the challenging task of the reader constantly provoked to dec…
In December 2018, Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa reopened to the public, five years after closing for an extensive renovation. Rebranded the AfricaMuseum, the institution was eager to shed its colonial image and highlight its new “focus on decolonization.” To do so, t…
Using several case studies, this dissertation examines objects from the western coast of Congo that were made for European audiences during the colonial era, with a focus on the decades from 1880 to 1940. This period was characterized by the intense upheaval and violence in the …
This dissertation examines the first three decades of a missionary encounter that began under the auspices of the Congo Inland Mission (CIM – later renamed as Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission [AIMM]) in Belgian Congo. As Africans, North Americans, and Europeans entered into relati…
Poliovirus, once a global pandemic is now in its endgame eradication stages. Currently, wild poliovirus type 2 and 3 have been declared eradicated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and wild type 1 is circulating in just two remaining countries. As the Sabin oral polio vacci…
This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals--through studies on city dwellers' food practices and representations--the inadequacy of an analytical approach to these changes in terms of Westernization, standardization, trans…
The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angol…
The history of human condition in post-colonial Africa emerges as a chronicle of human rights violations stimulated by local dictatorship, obsolete traditional customs, institutional tribalism, and the exploitative grip of global market and world politics. At the same time, it i…
Om Fn-tropperne, deres historie og deltagelse i FN-missioner fra deres oprettelse i 1948 til 1994. Med beskrivelse af de enkelte enheder, deres udstyr, uniformer, medaljer m.v. samt en fortegnelse over alle deres missioner
Congo-Brazzaville
by Auzias, Dominique, Labourdette, Jean-Paul
fromLe petit futé, Country guide
This dissertation examines the theoretical and fictional works of four major postcolonial writers of French expression: Abdelkebir Khatibi (Morocco), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Yves Valentin Mudimbe (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Assia Djebar (Algeria). These authors inv…