Appropriations - Johan Lagae - Objects that are dear to him : The colonizer's house and the mise en valeur of the Belgian Congo

Arguing that the pioneering days were over and time had come to guarantee a return on investment, Leplae made a case for the colonizer’s house as the crucial instrument for a successful mise en valeur (exploitation) of the colonized territory of the Belgian Congo. “To colonize the Congo,” Leplae wrote, “it is necessary to make it inhabitable.”

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