A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo Contributor(s): Roberts, Allen F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025300750X ISBN-13: 9780253007506 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Binding Type: Paperback Published: December 2012 Click for more in this series: African Expressive Cultures |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - Central - Art | African - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
Dewey: 325.349 |
LCCN: 2012030702 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Series: African Expressive Cultures |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.05 lbs) 328 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2013 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace a white line across the Dark Continent to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today. |
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