Journal article
Maniema: From the war of the AFDL to the war of the RCD
Pages 59 to 74
Cite this article
- BULELI, Léonard N’Sanda,
- Buleli, Léonard N’Sanda.
- Buleli, L.-N.-S.
https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.084.0059
Cite this article
- Buleli, L.-N.-S.
- Buleli, Léonard N’Sanda.
- BULELI, Léonard N’Sanda,
https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.084.0059
English
Over the past ten years, transition has become a way of life in the DRC. In Maniema, a province created by Mobutu’s decentralization program, democratization becomes a process in which power goes to the strongest. The war has accentuated this tendency. When the exception becomes the rule and the social sciences lose their explanatory power, we must begin by describing the know-how of survival.