Governing economic interests : interwar road construction in Belgian Congo = La gouvernance des intérêts économiques : la construction de routes coloniales pendant l’entre-deux-guerres au Congo belge Universiteit Gent
Contrary to the well-recognised relation between railroad infrastructure and emerging cities in the Belgian colony, the development of the Congolese road network was more closely connected to accessing the colonial hinterland and the expanding the rural economy. This latter link remains underresearched in both Congo’s and Africa’s transportation history, even if the colonial government equally considered road infrastructure a tool of empire. ...