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" Bar-Dancing, Palm Wine, and Letters "
Danielle Porter Sanchez
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AL
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1071944
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LA115573
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10.1163/24680966-00302002
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English
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Danielle Porter Sanchez
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Bar-Dancing, Palm Wine, and Letters [Article]\ Danielle Porter Sanchez
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Leiden: Brill
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Journal of African Military History
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2019
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3/2
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123–154
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This article focuses on the militarization of social life and leisure in Brazzaville during the Second World War and argues that efforts to instill a sense of control over the city could only suppress life so much, as many Congolese people were unwilling to completely succumb to the will of the administration in a war that seemed to offer very little to their communities or their city as a whole. Furthermore, drinking and dancing served as opportunities to engage with issues of class and race in the wartime capital of Afrique Française Libre. The history of alcohol consumption in Brazzaville is not simply the story of choosing whether or not to drink (or allow others to drink); rather, it is one of many stories of colonial control, exploitation, and racism that plagued Europe’s colonies in Africa during the Second World War. This article focuses on the militarization of social life and leisure in Brazzaville during the Second World War and argues that efforts to instill a sense of control over the city could only suppress life so much, as many Congolese people were unwilling to completely succumb to the will of the administration in a war that seemed to offer very little to their communities or their city as a whole. Furthermore, drinking and dancing served as opportunities to engage with issues of class and race in the wartime capital of Afrique Française Libre. The history of alcohol consumption in Brazzaville is not simply the story of choosing whether or not to drink (or allow others to drink); rather, it is one of many stories of colonial control, exploitation, and racism that plagued Europe’s colonies in Africa during the Second World War.
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Africa
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alcohol
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Brazzaville
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bureaucracy
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French Colonialism
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leisure
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Republic of Congo
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World War II
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10.1163/24680966-00302002
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