City politics : a study of Léopoldville, 1962-63
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Bibliographic Information
City politics : a study of Léopoldville, 1962-63
（African studies series, 1）
University Press, 1970
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Note
Bibliography: p. 239-244
Description and Table of Contents
Description
City Politics is a detailed study of the city of Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville), capital of the Congo, in the years immediately following independence. The book is a study of political leadership in an urban African movement undergoing extremely rapid change. The social and political processes of the city are examined in order to assess how certain citizens achieved political influence and how they maintained themselves in these positions of power. The history of the city, the population structure and the social economic structure of the city are all described in detail to provide the necessary background for the analysis of the political processes identified by the author. This work will be of interest to a wide readership. The description of a period in the process of decolonization of the only Belgian colony in Africa will prove of value to historians and political scientists.
Table of Contents
- Part I: 1. Introduction
- 2. The Historical background
- 3. The physical setting
- 4. Population structure and growth
- 5. The economic framework
- 6. The machinery of urban government
- 7. Religious organisation
- Part II. Social Relations: 8. The Urbanised
- 9. Community and neighbourhood
- 10. Domestic groups and kinship
- 11. Voluntary associations
- 12. Friendship
- 13. Townsmen and the supernatural
- Part III. Politics in Leopoldville: 14. Political parties
- 15
- The sources of power
- 16. Leaders
- 17. Followers
- 18. Conclusions.
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