![]() 6 It presented in a seemingly factual and observational manner the first steps taken to implement a more intensified agricultural and economic exploitation of the region. 5 Between 1910–1914, Leplae conducted an extensive photographic survey of Katanga. ![]() It aimed to initiate an agricultural colony in Katanga that would provide the food necessary for the emerging mining towns in the southern part of Congo, in particular Lubumbashi which has just been founded in 1910 as a Belgian colonial town in response to the arrival of a railway line arriving from British-ruled Southern Africa. Leplae’s publication was part of a larger settler colonial project named Mission Agricole. 1 (March 1911), cover including a photograph of a “Civil servant bungalow in Kuala Lumpur, Malacca.” ![]() ![]() Edmond Leplae, “Plans et photographies d’habitations pour plantations coloniales,” Bulletin Agricole du Congo belge II, no. ![]()
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