The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
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The History of the Congo Seon
The story of the Congo Seon became one of a great engineering triumph for the French government, not one of extraordinary trauma for the African men and women who actually built it. There was an entire kind of colonial apparatus that relied heavily on bureaucratic reports to defend the project. The loss of life was something that was necessary in order to help the future of the continent,. certainly the very Africans who were building it.
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