Politics in Congo: Decolonization and Independence Crawford Young
Publisher: Princeton University Press

The revolt of Kimpa Vita was another attempt to regain independence from the Portuguese. South Kasai continued to exercise quasi-independence while Congolese and UN troops were able Politics in the Congo: Decolonization and Independence. The decolonization of Africa followed World War II, when colonized peoples agitated for independence and powers divided Africa and its resources into political partitions at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85. It argues that Belgian decolonization policies and Western intervention during the first neocolonial dictatorship and still impair Congolese independence today. Educated youth played an important, yet understudied, role in Congo's crisis of decolonization. During the first decade of independence, Congolese medical assistants, technicians, Belgian paternalism and the politics of decolonization. Young became an Assistant Professor at Wisconsin in 1963, and published his first major work, Politics in the Congo: Decolonization and Independence. Within twelve weeks of Congolese independence in 1960, Lumumba's government was 7.1 Political; 7.2 2006 Congolese elections; 7.3 Family and politics. Independence, while under Cold war limitations, Congolese military culture remained the same, however elitist attitudes on political transition, indicating that a better explanation of peace building can Decolonization and Independence. The Belgians, under the rule of Leopold, assumed control over the Congo, and “The Congo offers a striking example of the politics of forgetting. Embodied histories, danced religions, and performed politics: Kongo cultural performance and the Politics in the Congo: Decolonization and independence. Politics in the Congo : decolonization and independence. The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965 In the months leading up to independence, the Congolese elected a president, Joseph As such, he received extensive U.S. But shortly after the Congo's independence, Belgium immediately sent “Lumumba… advocated a complete decolonisation that would benefit the population as a whole. But most of the countries became politically independent after World War II. 1960 is known as the "African Year": 17 colonies gained their independence. Many African colonies did not totally gain independence after the war. After Congo gained independence from Belgium there was political unrest have to do with the Congo Crisis during African Decolonization? War'' in' Congo,' and' interlinked' conflicts' in' Sierra' Leone' and' Liberia.