Un guide colonial. Le Guide du Voyageur au Congo belge et au Ruanda-Urundi

The Travel Guide to Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, of which five editions were released during the last ten years of Belgian Congo, is an archetypal colonial guide. The paper first highlights the emergence and the features of tourism in Central Africa. Congolese tourism, long fascinated with the myths of the Mountains of the Moon and the Source of the Nile, is essentially elitist and mainly centred on sport-hunting. Mountain gorillas, Ruwenzori climb, Tutsi dancers, Albert National Park, and Wagenia fishermen are considered the icons of this tourism first attracted by the Kivu and the Great... Mehr ...