Maria N'koi
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maria-n-koi-162-5146705
title:
Maria N'koi
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Maria N’koi is a Congolese rebel and healer known for having launched a "therapeutic insurgency" against the colonial administration of the Belgian Congo in 1915, opposing taxation and forced labor. After the scramble for Africa, Congo became a personal possession of the Belgian king, Léopold II, who brutally exploited it with violently enforced rubber production quotas. In 1903 Léopold asked the Liverpool School to study sleeping sickness in the Congo. These scientists mistakenly believed that
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Congolese rebel and healer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_N%27koi
date created:
2020-12-08T18:38:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T22:37:24Z
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