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The 1895 Tetela Rebellion: Congo's Fractured Revolt
In 1895, the Tetela people of the central Congo rose up against the Congo Free State's brutal rubber and ivory extraction regime. But this was no simple colonial clash — the rebellion exposed deep fractures within African societies, as Tetela soldiers serving in the Force Publique mutinied and turned their weapons on their former allies, the Songye and Luba. We follow the revolt from its spark at Luluabourg to its bloody suppression, and explore how the Tetela's own internal divisions — between chiefs who collaborated and those who resisted — shaped the conflict's outcome…
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