Browsing History by Author "LOFFMAN, RA"
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Belgian Rule and its Afterlives: Colonialism, Developmentalism and Mobutism in the Tanganyika District, Southeastern DR-Congo, 1885-1985
LOFFMAN, RA (Cambridge University Press, 2017-11-10)The arrival of Belgian rule in the late nineteenth century initiated significant changes in the labour history of Tanganyika, a province in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well the discursive ... -
“An Interesting Experiment”: Kibangile and the Quest for Chiefly Legitimacy in Kongolo, Northern Katanga, 1923–1934
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On the Fringes of a Christian Kingdom: The White Fathers, Colonial Rule and the Báhêmbá in Sola, Northern Katanga, 1909-1960
LOFFMAN, RAThis article charts the history of a White Fathers mission in a challenging rural milieu on the margins of the Christian ‘kingdom’ they established in southeastern Congo. It follows the Society from their arrival in the ... -
Same Memory, Different Memorials: The Holy Ghost Fathers (Spiritans), Martyrdom and the Kongolo Massacre
LOFFMAN, RA (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-08-17)Recent literature on modern martyrdom and memory has focused on cases in which individual groups remember martyrs’ sacrifices by making similar memorials to them. However, this article argues that even if members of a group ...