Bøger af Joseph Itoua

Is Nga Atsessé a spiritual phenomenon? Is it an organization of peoples in the Alima-Nkéni basin for their freedom and peace?In this solid, in-depth study, Joseph ITOUA reveals the Nga Atsessé man, his territory, his traditional political works and his strategies for warfare without appropriate weapons.The author also reveals the colonizers' strategies in this unjust and disproportionate war. Professor Joseph ITOUA's study reveals to the reader the causes of the war and of the failure of Nga Atsessé and the peoples of the Alima-Nkéni basin to resist the French occupiers.

The Mbosi, a large ethno-linguistic Bantu group living in the northern part of Congo (Brazzaville) have been able to cultivate and develop, throughout their history, a vast universe of values structuring a civilization that places them at the center of the group and intimately links them to the other Bantu peoples of Congo: Kongo, Teke, Maka. Supported by a virile language and a social organization that balances matrilineality and patrilineality, this civilization, which was destructured by French colonization, remains, however, embedded in the vast sum of Bantu civilizations of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. In the present work, Joseph ITOUA who draws his inspiration from some rare publications on the subject, but especially from his direct observation and oral accounts and, regretting the little interest of the African researchers on this civilization, commits himself to make discover the most significant elements of these founding values of the Mbosi civilization.