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Parts 2 and 3 are titled "Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity" and "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness" respectively (at least in the translation I'm using). You can find the book in EPUB or PDF format on Anna's Archive.
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Parts of "Trials and tribulations" really reminded me of the Tamil independence discussion a few days ago.
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We know that colonial domination gave preferential treatment to certain regions. The colony’s economy was not integrated into that of the nation as a whole. It is still organized along the lines dictated by the metropolis. Colonialism almost never exploits the entire country. It is content with extracting natural resources and exporting them to the metropolitan industries thereby enabling a specifc sector to grow relatively wealthy, while the rest of the colony continues, or rather sinks, into underdevelopment and poverty. In the aftermath of independence the nationals who live in the prosperous regions realize their good fortune and their gut reaction is to refuse to feed the rest of the nation. The regions rich in groundnuts, cocoa, and diamonds stand out against the empty panorama ofered by the rest of the country. The nationals of these regions look upon the others with hatred detecting envy, greed, and murderous impulses. The old precolonial rivalries, the old intertribal hatreds resurface. The Balubas refuse to feed the Luluas. Katanga becomes a state on its own and Albert Kalondji crowns himself king of southern Kasai.