Appropriations - Johan Lagae - "Objects that are dear to him": The colonizer's house and the mise en valeur of the Belgian Congo
Arguing that the pioneering days were over and time had come to guarantee a return on investment, Leplae made a case for the colonizer’s house as the crucial instrument for a successful mise en valeur (exploitation) of the colonized territory of the Belgian Congo. “To colonize the Congo,” Leplae wrote, “it is necessary to make it inhabitable.”
Source: e-flux.com