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Bena Makima

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35: 104: 354: 42: 209:. The missionaries ran the plantation using bonded Luba laborers, former slaves from eastern and central Kasai who had recently been liberated. On 5 November 1904 the post was attacked by the Kuba. The Europeans managed to drive off the attackers with the help of their foreign workers, and were relieved on 9 November by soldiers of the 34: 364: 116: 461: 335:
Presbyterian reformers in Central Africa: a documentary account of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the human rights struggle in the Congo, 1890-1918
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With construction of the railway Bena Makima lost its importance as a transshipment point in the dry season, and after 1928 became less and less important.
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took charge of planting rubber and of gathering wild rubber in exchange for having their goods transported at no charge on the steamer from
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The company began a rubber plantation at Bena Makima in October 1904. In a unique arrangement, four missionaries of the order of
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enters the Kasai. It is at the highest navigable point on the Kasai in the dry season.
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brought their ivory and rubber. Early in the 1900s a residence of the Catholic
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had asked to be allowed to establish a mission there, but were refused.
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was established at Bena Makima. The Presbyterian missionaries led by
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Being colonized: the Kuba experience in rural Congo, 1880-1960
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led by De Cock and Hubin, who arrived from the east.
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Bena Makima was situated within the territory of the
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Bena Makima is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
4°58′17″S 21°06′01″E / 4.971415°S 21.10038°E / -4.971415; 21.10038
DR Congo
Province
Kasai
Mweka
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Central Africa Time
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kasai River
Lulua River
Kuba Kingdom
Compagnie du Kasai
Zappo Zaps
Prefecture Apostolic of Upper Kassai
William Morrison
Scheut fathers
Kinshasa
Luebo
Force Publique
Benedetto 1996


Marchal & Delathuy 1996
Vansina 2010
Marchal & Delathuy 1996
Vansina 2010
Vansina 2010
Kwete Mwana & Vansina 2010

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