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This richly documented account of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries, and the Portuguese colonial state in the Kongo realm is told from the perspective of the kingdoms inhabitants. Jelmer Vos shows that both Africans and Europeans were able to forward differing social, political, and economic agendas as Kongos sacred city of So Salvador became a vital site for the expansion of European imperialism in Central Africa. Kongo people, he argues, built on the kingdoms long familiarity with Atlantic commerce and cultures to become avid intermediaries in a new system of colonial trade and mission schools. Vos underlines that Kongos incorporation in the European state system also had tragic consequences, including the undermining of local African structures of authorityon which the colonial system actually depended. Kongo in the Age of Empire carefully documents the involvement of Kongos royal court in the exercise of Portuguese rule in northern Angola and the ways that Kongo citizens experienced colonial rule as an increasingly illegitimate extension of royal power.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780299306243
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 234
- Utgivningsdatum: 2017-10-30
- Förlag: University of Wisconsin Press