Production is ensured by the native working no longer as an employee, but as a free peasant, owner of his land.

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The visit of King Albert I to the Belgian Congo in 1928. Between propaganda and reality. In July 1933, in a noted speech to the Senate, Leopold made a plea for the development of paysannat or indigenous agriculture in then Belgian Congo.

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