Qualla: Lualaba District https://qualla.com/lualaba-district en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/5/lualaba-district-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lualaba District https://qualla.com/lualaba-district Lualaba District: Introduction https://qualla.com/lualaba-district/ Photo credit Zoocat56, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Lualaba District is a good lens for looking at how colonial and post-colonial administrators draw lines on maps and what happens to the lines afterward. The name appears for the first time on a Congo Free State map of 1888 and keeps reappearing - dissolved, reconstituted, shrunk, redrawn, reborn - all the way up to 2015, when the current Lualaba Province was finally carved out from the Lualaba and Kolwezi districts. In between, the district has been a vice-government general, a province of Katanga under a different name, and part of a short-lived secession. Its river gave it its name. Its copper made other people want it. Its borders moved according to their calculations.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/5/lualaba-district-wp/kw45-lualaba-district-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lualaba District: The Congo Free State Draws A Line https://qualla.com/lualaba-district/ Photo credit Zoocat56, CC BY-SA 4.0. Under the decree of 16 April 1887 the Congo Free State - King Leopold II's private colony, run with the brutality now documented in rubber-terror archives - was divided into administrative districts, each headed by a district commissioner with deputies. The decree of 1 August 188...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/5/lualaba-district-wp/kw45-lualaba-district-the-congo-free-state-draws-a-line.mp3 0:06 2 full Lualaba District: Into Katanga, And Out Again https://qualla.com/lualaba-district/ Photo credit Zoocat56, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1908 Belgium annexed the Congo Free State from Leopold, reorganizing it as the Belgian Congo. Parts of Stanley Falls and Lualaba were combined in 1910 to form Katanga, a vice-government general that would later become one of the most powerful and profitable provinces in coloni...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/5/lualaba-district-wp/kw45-lualaba-district-into-katanga-and-out-again.mp3 0:06 3 full Lualaba District: Secession And Reconquest https://qualla.com/lualaba-district/ Photo credit Zoocat56, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 11 July 1960, a few days after Congolese independence, the province of Katanga seceded under Moïse Tshombe and declared itself a separate state. What followed - the Katanga Crisis - drew in UN forces and mercenaries, killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash n...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/5/lualaba-district-wp/kw45-lualaba-district-secession-and-reconquest.mp3 0:06 4 full Lualaba District: 2015: The Map Redrawn Again https://qualla.com/lualaba-district/ Photo credit Zoocat56, CC BY-SA 4.0. The 2005 Congolese constitution promised to carve the country's large provinces into smaller ones, bringing government closer to the governed. It took a decade, but in 2015 the plan was executed. The old Katanga Province was broken into four: Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Tanganyika...

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