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This project analyses the structures of colonial systems of forced labour, in an attempt to come to a comparison of thedifferent trajectories of African populations under distinct European administrations. Through the interpretation of case studiesfrom different West African and Central African territories, it will be possible to understand the techniques of organising aninvoluntary labour force, ...

Forced labour is a typical phenomenon of 20th-century European colonial structures in sub-Saharan Africa. While having been abolished in most parts of colonial Africa after World War II, it has, as a particular heritage of the Afro-European encounter, been partly or fully re-instated in many African countries after the end of the colonial period. Moreover, the practice (or practices) of colonial f ...