Vassal concludes by castigating the "fetishman" for being the root of the cause of the "primitive" state of the Congolese. As simultaneously a "doctor, judge, and divinity all in one," the fetishman performed the miraculous and thus gave the ordinary Congolese little if any incentive to work or to strive for anything. [8] As a result, it was necessary for the French to remain, probably indefinitely.
Footnotes:
[1] Gabrielle Vassal, Life in French Congo, (London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1925), p. 10.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid., pp. 35, 38.
[4] Ibid., p. 57.
[5] Ibid., p. 115.
[6] Ibid., p. 91.
[7] Ibid., p. 120.
[8] Ibid., p. 149.
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