In an extractive economy, such as the Belgian Congo and its successor state, Zaire, a narrow elite seizes power and USES its control of resources to prevent social change.
在像比属刚果(Belgian Congo)及其继承国扎伊尔(Zaire)这样的掠夺性经济体系中,一位目光短浅的社会精英会夺取权力并利用权力对资源的控制来阻止社会变迁。
So he found work as a trader in the Belgian Congo instead and then moved to Brussels, where he has remained ever since.
于是他在比利时属刚果做了一个商人,后来移居到布鲁塞尔,并一直居住到现在。
In fact, this ruling may not have been an altogether bad thing because the Belgian Congo had just erupted into civil war and Kigoma was filled with refuges.
事实上,这种管制并不完全是坏事,因为比利时的殖民地刚果刚刚爆发了内战,基戈马充满了难民。