A modern history of monetary and financial systems of Congo; 1885-1995.
9780773454767
A modern history of monetary and financial systems of Congo;
1885-1995.
Mambu ma Khenzu, Edouard.
Edwin Mellen Pr.
2006
334 pages
$119.95
Hardcover
HC591
With its long history and importance in African trade, the Congo
had a sophisticated and successful monetary practice long before the
colonial period Colonial Period may generally refer to any period in a country's history when it was subject to administration by a colonial power. - Korea under Japanese rule
- Colonial America
See also
. The author (accounting and finance, U. of Greenwich)
describes the traditional money and exchange mechanisms from the
fifteenth In music, a fifteenth (sometimes abbreviated 15ma) is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter or quadruple the frequency. It corresponds to two octaves. It is the fourth harmonic. to the nineteenth centuries, including the system of shells
standing as mediums of exchange, along with fabrics, metals, humans,
livestock, salt and pearls, culminating in the definition of a formal
exchange rate. He moves to the issues inherent in money and finance in
the period of the Congo Free State Congo Free State
See Congo. (1885-1908),including the development
of policy in the reign of King Leopold King Leopold usually refers to one of these Belgian kings: - Leopold I of Belgium (1790-1865), first king of the Belgians;
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909), known (among other things) for the exploitation of Congo and mass murder of its citizens;
II, the financial and monetary
changes wrought in the era of the Belgian Congo Belgian Congo: see Congo, Democratic Republic of the. (1908-1960), and those
of the Democratic Republic from 1960 to 1995, an era with which he
became very familiar as a top banking and government official for 30
years.
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