Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors

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Active Revolt (Congo-Brazzaville), 108 Afonso (King), 7–8 African National Congress, 10–11, 113 Afrikaners, 19–20 agriculture. See specific crops alcohol and Dutch colonizers, 17–18 as labor inducement, 17–19 and labor productivity, 18–19 production of, 14 and the Taylor mission, 34 trade impacts, 15–17 Alves, Nito, 116, 160 American League of Friends, 56 Angola attack on South African passenger jet, 97 Boers in, 42, 45 capitalism, unbridled, 165–66 churches, political and social roles of, 145–47, 173–74 civil war (1992–94), 142–45 civil war (1998–2002), 153–58 cold war, 139–40 economic privatization, 150–51 education, 59, 85, 91, 171 exports, 139 foreign business interests in, 103–4 free press, 159–60 health, 171–72 Human Development Index, 173 inflation, 149–50 living conditions, 169–70 oil industry, 69, 94, 97, 104, 120–22, 144, 155–57 Protestantism and regional patriotism, 97, 101–3 regional distrust, 140–42 rural rebellion, postindependence, 117–18 South African destabilization, 116–18, 120–21, 125 tribal conflict in, 96–100 in the 21st century, 159–74 and U.S. policies, 120–21 wars of destabilization, 116–22 water, politics of, 168 wealth and status discrepancies, 104–5 Angolense, 160 anticlericalism, 29, 62, 75, 130 Antsee, Margaret, 141, 144 Arab empire, 4 Arnot, Frederick, 37–38, 39 Asia, 2 assimilados, 87–88 Axum, 2 Balmer, Alfred, 48 Baptist Church, 101–2 British, 75–76 Missionary Society, 29 Barroso, Father, 29 Belgian Congo, 12, 65, 69–70, 73, 86. See also Congo Reform Movement Belgium, 62, 63, 71–75, 89 Benguela, 37, 41–42, 81, 83, 100 Benguela Railway Company, 48, 68, 89 Beye, Alioune, 144, 153 Bittencourt, Marcelo, 105, 106, 107–9 185 Index You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. black bourgeoisie, 90–91 black consciousness movement, 112–13 Boer War, 19–20 Boers, 14, 18, 22, 39, 45, 50–52, 59 in Angola, 42, 45 Boma (Congo), 6 Botha, P.W., 113, 114, 115 Bowskill, J. S., 102 Britain, 10, 19–22, 63–64, 66–67, 115 Baptist church, 75–76 and the Portuguese empire, 67–68 and South Africa, 10–11, 19, 115 and the transformation of Africa, 89 British and Foreign Bible Society, 56 Brussels Conference Act, 52 Bush, George H. W., 121 Cabinda Gulf, 104 Cadbury, William, 21–22 Cadornega, Antóónio de Oliveira de, 8 Caetano, Marcello, 75 Canary Islands, 7 “Cancer Two,” 152 Carlos of Saxe-Coburg, 66–67 carnival, 128–30, 137–38 celebration date, 124 and Héli Chatelain, 130 churches’ roles in, 125–26 dances, 136–37 dance societies, 132–36 financing, 132 social ills and traumas, exorcism of, 128–30 social roots, 131–32 witnesses and actors, 126–27 Carter, Jimmy, 120 Carthage, 3–4 Carvalho, Rui Duarte de, 131 Casement, Roger, 65 Catholic Church, 173 in Angola, 23, 75, 101, 125, 145–46, 173 and Héli Chatelain, 33 in Congo, 75 imperial agenda, 29–30 and industrial workers, 75 in Portugal, 29–31 and South Africa, 29 cattle ranching, 74 186 / Index Central African Examiner, 160 Central African revolution, 11–12 in Angola, 12 in Congo, 11–12 See also under specific countries Chatelain, Héli, 9, 21, 31–37, 41–61 and alcohol trade, 51 and carnival, 130 and Catholic Church, 33 commercial enterprises, 43–51 mission work, 56–59 ox wagons, 46–48 religious beliefs, 57–58 return to Switzerland, 59–61 and slavery, 42–43, 52–53, 59 China, 3, 20, 108 Chipenda, Daniel, 106, 108 Christianity, 28 introduction to Central Africa, 7 missions, 9–10 See also specific churches clerical workers, 71, 78 cocoa growing, 66 coffee growing, 66, 74 cold war, 139–40 Colman, Tony, 159 colonial abuses in Central Africa, 62–67 colonial crisis of 1908, 62–67 Congo-Brazzaville, 108, 152 Active Revolt, 108 Congo Reform Movement, 65 Congo state Congo Reform Movement, 65 and the humanitarian movement, 62–65 and Leopold II of Saxe-Coburg, 65 Congo-Zaire, 152 Congregationalist Church, 40, 89, 103 conquistadores, 8 contratados, 77–78 convicts, 82 copper mining, 68–69 Corruption Perceptions Index, 164 cotton farming, 3, 12, 74–75 Creoles, 6–7, 81 in Angola, 23 in South Africa, 23 Cruz, Viriato da, 108 Cuba, 119–20, 121 You are reading copyrighted material published...