« Ground floor: the new provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Territorial construction and ethnicities. To that addresses the topic of state in Africa, the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo 1ne can hardly be avoided, because of the importance of the country, he has known heartbreak, political reconstruction that undertakes. For in 2006, after nine years of civil war, foreign invasions, exoduses, massacres, looting, President Joseph Kabila (sucesseur of his father, assassinated in 2001) promulgated the Constitution of laTroisièmeRépublique. This text establishes a "highly decentralized unitary state", with 26 autonomous provinces; and a democratic system with a freely elected president and the national, provincial and local representatives, which had not seen here for forty years. Viewed more closely, the document, resulting from long negotiations conducted within the framework of the "transition" and "national reconciliation »
"At first, the state allocates its endistrictsassez Leopoldian fuzzy area (11 in 1888, 15 in 1895). Then, with the introduction of true colonial system, supervision of space and men is growing gradually, in particular to freeze the old mobility of the territorialisant ethnic groups. In 1914, the Belgian Congo was restructured into 4 grandesprovinces, Congo Kasai, Equateur, Orientale and Katanga. Getting articulate the 22 districts Existing divided enterritoires, themselves subdivided ensecteurs These include the multitude deschefferies, agglutinated for smaller changes in Table XIXèmesiècle when the noose tightens interference came from overseas.. the future is Congo partagéde factoentre deuxmouvances, Luso-africaineà west, facing the Americas, Arab-Swahili in the east, facing the Middle East. The shock of the old kingdoms then leaves the field to unprecedented powers, based on Slave: Ngongo-Lutete Kasai, Tippu Tip Maniema, Katanga Msiri.It is this space reorganization that will b...