<i>Garimpeiro</i>worlds: digging, dying &amp; ‘hunting’ for diamonds in Angola

Boeck, Filip De

doi:10.1080/03056240108704565

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Review of African Political Economy

Volume 28, Issue 90

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Garimpeiroworlds: digging, dying & ‘hunting’ for diamonds in Angola

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Author(s): Filip De Boeck ^a

Publication date (Print): December 2001

Journal: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

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This article offers a brief presentation of the diamond smuggling activities between the Angolan province of Lunda Norte and the bordering Congolese Kasai and (especially) Kwango region (and more particularly the administrative units of Kahemba and Kasongo Lunda. Over the past two decades these areas have become central in contributing to the ‘dollarisation’ of local economies in both Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. As a result, national currencies in the two countries lost much of their significance throughout the 1990s. Whereas the major cities in Congo and Angola have in many respects become ‘village’ or ‘forest‐like’, the ‘bush’ on the border between Congo and Lunda Norte is the place where dollars have been generated, and where villages have transformed themselves, at least temporarily, into booming diamond settlements.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): crea20

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Title: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

ISSN (Print): 0305-6244

ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720

Publication date (Print): December 2001

Volume: 28

Issue: 90

Pages: 549-562

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^a Associate Professor, member of the Africa Research Center of the Department of Anthropology , Catholic University of Leuven

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Publisher ID: 8704565 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 90, December 2001, pp. 549-562

DOI: 10.1080/03056240108704565

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Jeune Afrique 1996 : 202

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[1] Jeune Afrique 1996 : 202