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The 1930s Belgian Congo: Forced Cotton and Rural Revolt
In this episode of The History of Belgium, Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known corner of Belgium's colonial legacy: the forced cotton cultivation scheme that transformed the rural Congo in the 1930s. They discuss the colonial administration's push for cotton as a cash crop, the brutal system of quotas and floggings enforced by the Force Publique and local chiefs, and the wave of peasant resistance that followed — from the 1931 Pende uprising (already touched on in Episode 22) to the lesser-known Bapende and Bakongo revolts. The conversation centres on the cotton zones of the Kasai…
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