Central Africa Project collection ca. 1920]-1980

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Central Africa Project collection ca. 1920]-1980

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Informational resource organization which supports multi-disciplinary research on modern French-speaking Central Africa consisting of Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi. Correspondence, telegrams, minutes, annual reports, financial records, personnel records of bureaucrats in administrative units, and associated documents of the local Belgian colonial administration in the Rwandi-Urundi territory and its relationship with the government of Belgium. Information pertains to the administration of the colony, elections, agriculture, taxes, education, and the role of the United Nations in the administration, ca. 1920-1961. Bulk of the collection consists of printed matter including press packets and publications. Printed matter relates to the Belgian colonial administration and the United Nations trusteeship in the Congo and the Rwandi-Urundi territory, 1927-1961; the Mouvement National Congolais, 1959-1961; and the Republic of Burundi, 1957-1977; as well as other social, political, economic, and cultural subjects. Also, reports, journals, periodicals, press clippings, and miscellaneous material related to the Belgian Congo-Zaire, the Rwandi-Urundi territory and the republics of Rwanda and Burundi, and Africa in general.

135 lin. ft.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316863

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United Nations. Trusteeship Council

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Central Africa Project.

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Informational resource organization which supports multi-disciplinary research on modern French-speaking Central Africa consisting of Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi. From the description of Central Africa Project collection, [ca. 1920]-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570921 From the guide to the Central Africa Project collection, ca. 1920]-1980, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) ...

Mouvement national congolais

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United Nations

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