Kinshasa in Transition
Subtitle: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (Population and Development (Chicago, Ill.).)
Edition: Rev Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226750576
Subjects: African studies; Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; History: World; Sociology; Africa; Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire); General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Congo (Democratic Republic); Education; Employment; Fertility, Human; Kinshasa; Women
First sentence: In 1881, the American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, acting on behalf of King Leopold of Belgium, founded what was to become the city of Leopoldville on the banks of the Congo River.