The Conquest of the French Somaliland and the Kabbobás’ Killing (1943)
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2020.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : While the historiography describes mostly a peaceful occupation of French Somaliland, a 1943 violent event allows another reading of this colony construction by highlighting the important coercion imposed to civilians by military troops in charge of controlling the territory. This text proposes a new reading of the events which took place within the hinterland of the colony, between the death of the civil servant Albert Bernard in 1935 and the occupation of the Afambo area in 1943, as the history of a conquest. It also analyses a situation of an uncontrolled oppression of civilian inhabitants in colonial situation during World War Two.
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While the historiography describes mostly a peaceful occupation of French Somaliland, a 1943 violent event allows another reading of this colony construction by highlighting the important coercion imposed to civilians by military troops in charge of controlling the territory. This text proposes a new reading of the events which took place within the hinterland of the colony, between the death of the civil servant Albert Bernard in 1935 and the occupation of the Afambo area in 1943, as the history of a conquest. It also analyses a situation of an uncontrolled oppression of civilian inhabitants in colonial situation during World War Two.
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