The Colonial Occupation of Katanga : The Personal Correspondence of Clment Brasseur, 1893-1897

Clment Brasseur was the officer responsible for initiating the colonial occupation of Katanga in the 1890s. Available in English for the first time, these letters reveal the racist and gendered world inhabited by Brasseur and show that the early colonial experience was as violent in Katanga as in other areas.