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...Belgian Government aide, Miss Gilberte Denoux, defended certain aspects of her country's policy vis a vis the Congo. She strove to demonstrate that European colonization has not been an unmitigated disaster for Africa...
...noted the following as positive contributions of Belgian control in the Congo: (1) unification of the region, saving Central Africa from the ravages of Balkanization. Belgium's colonial policy sought a centralized state, she noted, adding that prior to the liberation Belgium a dfavored Lumumba over Kasavubu on account of the latter's separatist leanings...
...Katanga's Moise Tshombe, it was the worst of times. Once he was the cockiest Congolese of them all, the man with the most money and the tidiest private army. Last week, stripped of his Belgian advisers and cut off from his troops, he languished in a guarded villa in Coquilhatville. He was a victim of that old Congolese persuasion tactic-kidnaping. And nobody much seemed to care...
Everybody's Friend. A stylish, wealthy businessman -turned - politician, Moise Tshombe found himself top man in the Congo's richest province when the Belgians relinquished rule. When the Congo erupted in factional squabbling. Tshombe declared mineral-rich Katanga independent, hoping to maintain economic and cultural ties to Belgium. He tried to keep the U.N. out of Katanga, strengthened his hand with hired mercenaries and Belgian advisers. While the rest of the Congo starved and squabbled. Tshombe prospered. He began to infuriate the Congolese leaders. When Tshombe boldly agreed to attend the Coquilhatville conference, Kasavubu saw his chance...
...indignities mount. Mukasa's long-sought aunt, the twin sister of his dead mother, proves to be a filthy, half-mad old woman who has been driven from the tribe as a witch. To save her wretched life, McNair risks taking an illegal short cut through the Belgian Congo. They are swiftly arrested. McNair, as a white man, is quartered with the Belgian officers, but Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom: abandonment for the half...