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Imagine a culture and people at the heart of human kind, a landscape of jungles, rivers, and vast savannas. Imagine the Congo. In his apt recollections of a decade spent in the Congo between the 1950's and the 1960's, Hugo Daems takes the reader deep into Central African rural life. Kianza's Congo is a timepiece. It is a retelling of myth, ritual, and daily rhythms of the Sonde tribe when their world-through Belgian colonialism, Christian missionaries, and struggles for political independence.

Though Daems lived in the Congo as a servant of the Belgian government, he fostered deep bonds with the Sonde, particularly with clan chiefs. Infused with reverence for "other" lifestyles and traditions, Kianza's Congo is a story told with integrity; it is also a commentary on colonialism and, as much universal in its implications.
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Scattershot anthropological vignettes of a Congolese ethnic group during the 1950s from former Belgian colonial administrator Daems. From 1953 to 1961, Daems lived with the Sonde people in the southwest Congo. As the region had little geopolitical and no economic importance to the Belgians, both the landscape and the local customs remained intact. But Daems appreciated that colonialism would open up the area and big changes were imminent, so he set about interviewing the Sonde chief and taking notes so as to preserve a glimpse of Sonde life and the elements that gave it distinction and strength. Gathered here are a handful of stories—framed as oral histories, as told by the chief (the kianza) and his father, with occasional essays by Daems—explaining the social hierarchy of the tribe, their laws and enforcement, worship and witchcraft, slavery and the role of ghosts, initiation processes into adulthood and various secret societies, and—most wonderfully—exactly what it was like to encounter their first European, all this in an effort to get at the glue that secured the Sondes' cultural convictions. But Daems is not an artful storyteller: the words he puts in the chief's mouth have a cooked quality, yet remain uninflected and too windy by half. No sense of overarching context emerges, so that while these peeks into Sonde life are unquestionably fascinating—and Daems's respect and admiration evident—they lie about unassembled into a whole, even at times taking on a sideshow character that the author clearly doesn't intend. To his credit, Daems never tries to whitewash Belgian arrogance or misguidance in the Congo, but he does bring a fusty, overly literaleye to his subject: "Black heritage is much richer than soul food, a chicken walk, sagging pants, and a `cold piece' to command respect." Without puzzling these truly remarkable elements of Sonde life into a complete picture, they remain as frustratingly opaque as a cabinet of curiosities. (2 maps; 28 illustrations, not seen)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780887391897
  • Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
  • Publication date: 8/28/1999
  • Pages: 300
  • Product dimensions: 6.01 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.93 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2000

    Discover the REAL african tribe's live

    This book saves you the discomfort of a trip deep into the African Jungle: I have never read such a detailed description of the real 'Circle of Life' in Africa. Mr. Daems tells us the story of Kianza's life, starting with the first encounter of Kianza's father with white people, up to the independence of Congo. Tales of slavery, intiation rites, secret societies, local politics and economics, all these subjects are demystified in this book by Kianza himself. Kianza is not just a first row spectator but a participant himself. The arrival of white man however disrupted the existing fragile social structures which had evolved out of several thousands of years of trying to live in harmony with nature. 'Kianza however did not oppose progress blindly, but it was blind progress that he opposed.'

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