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| PERSONAL HISTORY – 1928-1930 |
Denise Moran's depiction of Tchad is based on her own observation of the area in the late 1920s. Her blunt portrayal of colonial life is uncompromising. She debunks colonizers' "civilizing" claims and describes them as a bunch of profiteers, rotten to the core. Nine out of ten people running the A.E.F, she suggests, are nasty, greedy and highly incompetent civil servants who enslave and brutalize the local population with impunity. Colluding with big business, they have a complete disregard for the real needs of the population and waste most of the resources put at their disposal.
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