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External Economic Exploitation in the DRC: 1990–2005

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Patience Kabamba
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In his conclusion to his seminal book, Politics in the Congo (1965), Crawford Young wrote the following:

Belgium … constructed in Africa a colonial state which stood out by the thoroughness of its organization, the formidable accretion of power through an interlocking alliance of state, church, and capital, and the ambition of its economic and social objectives. The very strength of the system as a colonial structure, and its steadfast refusal to face effectively the problem of political adaptation until it began to disintegrate, made an ordered transfer of power peculiarly difficult. A colonizer who suddenly lost the profound conviction of the righteousness of his policy was confronted with a revolution by the colonized which lacked both structure and ideology. Total colonialism was replaced by total independence virtually overnight, yet the very completeness of the victory of the colonized had as its concomitant an impotence which emptied success of its substance. (1965:572)

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ASR Forum: The Congo (DRC) Fifty Years After Independence
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African Studies Review , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , April 2012 , pp. 123 - 130
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2012

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