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Research Paper | Anthropology Science | Congo | Volume 5 Issue 1, January 2016

Portage and Labour in Northern Middle Congo from 1900 to 1960

Dr. Dominique OBA

Abstract: This study shows that between 1900 and 1960, a partial view of the port and the workforce in the north of Middle Congo. Indigenous were enlisted against their will in a production system they did not know its contours. Porting when discussing these different contours in a negative way contributes to increasing misery and poverty, as many people were forced to leave their villages in order to escape brutal and repressive methods used for the whites recruit labor. It is therefore a system that had amplified the horror and even the spread of disease and starvation. The French Congo so enormous sacrifices needed for its development

Keywords: Portage, labour, northen middle Congo

Edition: Volume 5 Issue 1, January 2016,

Pages: 667 - 670