The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
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The Concessionary System in the French Congo
There is a sense of disdain for the locals that they were maybe not cooperating. And in fact, there's some accounts by some of these early sort of explorer slash surveyors who tried to come up with their own roots. So there was there was almost a kind of dismissal of the very possibility of local knowledge that could help with this kind of technological expertise that the French had. The concessionary system as a kind of prelude to the building of the railroad.
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