Antoine van Bilsen
Male, Deceased Person
1913 – 1996
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Who was Antoine van Bilsen?
Anton A. Jozef "Jef" Van Bilsen was a Belgian professor who, in December 1955, proposed a thirty-year plan for creating a self-sufficient independent state out of the Belgian Congo. The timetable called for a gradual change over 30 years, the time he estimated it would take to create an educated elite to administrate the new Congo. His plan never came to fruition after Congolese nationalists demanded immediate independence, leading to the Congo Crisis. He taught at the University of Leuven.
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