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Chapter 5 - The Scramble for Central Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2021

Jacques Pépin
Jacques Pépin
Affiliation:
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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Chapter 5 sets the stage for the rest of the story. While several infectious agents were exported from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean during the slave trade, this was not the case with HIV, which indirectly confirms its relatively recent emergence in central African populations. This chapter briefly tells the story of the European colonisation of central Africa by France and Belgium. It explains how the Franco-Belgian incursion in south-east Cameroon during World War I (1914–16) created much greater intermingling of populations and may have provided a route for HIV to reach the Stanley Pool.

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slave tradecentral AfricaLéopoldvilleBrazzavilleBelgian CongoFrench Equatorial AfricaCamerooncolonisationWorld War I
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The Origins of AIDS , pp. 83 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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