Congo in Poverty
Since its independence in 1960, the Congo has impacted by its lack of infrastructure and the brutal impact of civil war. Under the Mobutu regime, the country had experienced only public debt that have been growing, inflation, and budget deficits but also the system of the corruption that has now reached record levels. During these, state had shown in illogicality, which took effect as a waste of resources, the allocation of these resources for political purposes. Stability has been undermined, by a lack of consensus among the parties on dismantling the rebels that are in the eastern region. In the west, deep-seated tensions exist in rural areas as a result of isolation, unemployment, poverty and malnutrition. I going to explain …show more content…
From colonial period to Mobutu’s rule to being split into two countries. The experience of its inhabitants is the story of colonialism, from its earliest manifestations to its tumultuous end. What happened in the Congo happened to varying degrees throughout Africa and other colonized regions: racism, economic exploitation, indirect rule, and modernization.
Before the colonization of the Congo in 1877, the slave trade had weaken the country on for nearly four centuries. King Leopold II of Belgium took the Congo as his own property in 1876, and the mistreatment of the natives was even more terrifying. Leopold called a conference for every country in Europe to come to discuss the colonization of Africa in 1876. The Congo free state was King Leopold’s private possession. In a sense the state was only free not subject to any government control from Europe. Some land he kept it for his self or he leased the rest to a company. In a Free State government was to get a third of the profit. The tax system odf the Congo Free State was designed to maximize revenue. The main object of exploitation resource rubber in the 1890s …show more content…
The opening of the territory to free trade was intended to enable reform of the direct tax system. Nevertheless, the international pressure which was not happy to be in charge of a vast, underdeveloped area in Africa. It was not until 1913, that the Belgium dismantled this system and the British recognized the Belgian for controlling the Congo. The Belgians used the model colony which create policies to assume that white culture was preferable. To an attempt to reconstruct the society, the Belgians tried to restore power to traditional chiefs; this reform proved to be ineffective and decades of abuse under the Free State had destroyed the economic and family relationships that was intact. The Belgian government had made efforts to remove the restrictions on free and competition imposed by the Free State regime. As in 1958, Belgium stilled had the Congo with the assumption that the Congolese were content in the model colony. But the Congolese expressed their disagreement with protests and riots in the streets. Within a year of the first protests, the Belgians declared that they will give the Congo their independence. In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister but him and Joseph Kasavubu, the president did not see eye to eye policies. Later, Lumumba was assassinated with help of Mobutu, his
Since its independence in 1960, the Congo has impacted by its lack of infrastructure and the brutal impact of civil war. Under the Mobutu regime, the country had experienced only public debt that have been growing, inflation, and budget deficits but also the system of the corruption that has now reached record levels. During these, state had shown in illogicality, which took effect as a waste of resources, the allocation of these resources for political purposes. Stability has been undermined, by a lack of consensus among the parties on dismantling the rebels that are in the eastern region. In the west, deep-seated tensions exist in rural areas as a result of isolation, unemployment, poverty and malnutrition. I going to explain …show more content…
From colonial period to Mobutu’s rule to being split into two countries. The experience of its inhabitants is the story of colonialism, from its earliest manifestations to its tumultuous end. What happened in the Congo happened to varying degrees throughout Africa and other colonized regions: racism, economic exploitation, indirect rule, and modernization.
Before the colonization of the Congo in 1877, the slave trade had weaken the country on for nearly four centuries. King Leopold II of Belgium took the Congo as his own property in 1876, and the mistreatment of the natives was even more terrifying. Leopold called a conference for every country in Europe to come to discuss the colonization of Africa in 1876. The Congo free state was King Leopold’s private possession. In a sense the state was only free not subject to any government control from Europe. Some land he kept it for his self or he leased the rest to a company. In a Free State government was to get a third of the profit. The tax system odf the Congo Free State was designed to maximize revenue. The main object of exploitation resource rubber in the 1890s …show more content…
The opening of the territory to free trade was intended to enable reform of the direct tax system. Nevertheless, the international pressure which was not happy to be in charge of a vast, underdeveloped area in Africa. It was not until 1913, that the Belgium dismantled this system and the British recognized the Belgian for controlling the Congo. The Belgians used the model colony which create policies to assume that white culture was preferable. To an attempt to reconstruct the society, the Belgians tried to restore power to traditional chiefs; this reform proved to be ineffective and decades of abuse under the Free State had destroyed the economic and family relationships that was intact. The Belgian government had made efforts to remove the restrictions on free and competition imposed by the Free State regime. As in 1958, Belgium stilled had the Congo with the assumption that the Congolese were content in the model colony. But the Congolese expressed their disagreement with protests and riots in the streets. Within a year of the first protests, the Belgians declared that they will give the Congo their independence. In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister but him and Joseph Kasavubu, the president did not see eye to eye policies. Later, Lumumba was assassinated with help of Mobutu, his