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| Title: |
Congolese children at the Congo House in Colwyn Bay (North Wales, Great Britain) at the end of the 19th century: unpublished documents |
| Author: |
Z. A. Etambala |
| Appeared in: |
Afrika focus |
| Paging: | Volume 3 (1987) nr. 3-4 pages 237-285 |
| Year: |
1987 |
| Contents: |
In the present study we like to focus the attention on the presence of Congolese children at the Congo House in Colwyn Bay (North Wales, Great-Britain) during the last decade of the 19th century. The idea, which William Hughes conceived and which consisted of educating Congolese, in a first phase, and other African youth, in a second one, never received a just interest. The experiment of Hughes, a former baptist missionary, was a unique specimen for Great-Britain. Henry Morton Stanley and King Leopold II were a little bit involved in the successful start of this initiative. But this article has particularly in view an identification of the Congolese boys and girls who frequented the 'Congo House1! |
| Publisher: |
Ghent Africa Platform (GAP) |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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