ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️

Cultural Historian in training - the history of southern 🇨🇩. Sometimes crude. Agnostic. Autistic. Materalist Feminist. Bisexual. Francophobe ♿ 🏳️‍🌈

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji Let the métis have their métis identity in peace, please. Soon you'll be telling us that you're 1/16th this and that

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji I am reminded of this article https://t.co/U6m6KfUSNO The Bena Katawa–Bena Mutombo business is another bag of worms, and I think it's opening a schism among the Luluwa that runs along anti- versus pro-Fatshianana

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji But that's the nature of creating ethnicity, some myths die and are superseded by others as an emerging collective identity needs legitimising

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji Nkole wa Cilonda is interesting because he doesn't fit neatly into the Nsanga a Lubangu migration myth which Vansina noted only became popular among the Luluwa through colonial schooling

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji The Roosens chapter I recommended discusses ethnogenesis from the economic side. I suggest you pair it with Lufuluabo. L shows how missions produced a group out of the displaced, R shows how the colonial economy reinforced and legtimise new ethnic boundaries

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji Many of those displaced by Arabo-Swahili raiding out of Zanzibar took on a Luba identity they would not have claimed before, as more of them moved into western Kasaayi, Christianity became the means of shedding a former slave status

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji What this discourse keeps surfacing is an attachment to an antiquity that never existed, and to ethnicity as biological destiny. Tracing how and when these categories were assembled can help loosen that hold

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@TJMufuta @tresorkalonji - Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith, "Who's Who? The Case of the Luba," in Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past (2015)
- Eugeen Roosens, "The Luba of Kasaï (Zaïre): New 'White' Ethnics," in Creating Ethnicity: The Process of Ethnogenesis (1989)

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

no productive base of its own falls back on tribalism + regionalism in the struggle over state resources. Ethnicity was, + still is, one of the ways class competition comes to be organised when state nationalism (distinguishing from ethnonationalism) has little economic content

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

Haven't read it yet, so I dunno whether it touches on ethnicity, but Zairianisation/Authenticité distributed assets through patronage networks shaped by region + ethnic origin. This is very close to Frantz Fanon's argument in The Wretched of the Earth: a national bourgeoisie with

[Brothers of the Watch @TheMwamiDRC]

La bourgeoisie (oligarchies dominantes) zaïroise naît des « évolués » de l'après-guerre (1945-1950) sous contrôle colonial, avant de devenir sous Mobutu une oligarchie d'État corrompue par la « Zaïrianisation » (1973), coupée du peuple malgré les illusions du nationalisme.

[Brothers of the Watch @TheMwamiDRC]

La bourgeoisie (oligarchies dominantes) zaïroise naît des « évolués » de l'après-guerre (1945-1950) sous contrôle colonial, avant de devenir sous Mobutu une oligarchie d'État corrompue par la « Zaïrianisation » (1973), coupée du peuple malgré les illusions du nationalisme.

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@bennimw When that tantine said Koffi forced everyone in QL to go out with him, including the men, I did not need proof - I believed her. Koffi is tapped like that

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

Today I learnt that Fally is not a smooth talker and he doesn't know how to sext

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@WhinyWinry Probably true, but the babe understands Lingala, he had the option to sext in Lingala

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@Uchihaanti1 😂😂😂 I expected better from a rumba artist

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

New Books! Some class analysis and some Philosophy

[ngondo wà banyìnkà 🌒☄️ @muntuwabende]

@aaaangola You're probably right