Gerard Philips. Dagboek van twee reizen door Belgisch Congo en Ruanda-Urundi, 1957 en 1959:Kritisch ingeleide en geannoteerde editie

With the forelying critical edition of Gerard Philips’ travel diaries, a unique historical source becomes available to the public. Philips’ notebooks testify to the complex relationships that marked daily life in the Belgian Congo and in Ruanda-Urundi on the eve of Congolese independence. The author was at the same time a senator, an academic and a priest, a combination of capacities due to which his travel report offers a unique insight into the relationship between the political, university and ecclesiastical environments in the colonial era. Moreover, these journals cover the story of two j... Mehr ...