Congo

The DRC is a unique case because of the paradoxical nature of its vast natural resources wealth. It is evident to outline what makes the Democratic Republic of Congo an interesting target for carrying out a political science research (Teorell and Svensson 2007 p.18). The DRC is perhaps the richest country in the world in terms of natural resources. However, this country’s dismal circumstances and standard of life does not correlate with its immense potentiality. Considering democracy as a…

the book king Leopold’s ghost is a book describing the modern history of the Congo which is a story of brutality, greed and death all caused by King Leopold. The story of King Leopold was widely discussed around the world due to the events that happened to the people of Belgium during his reign. King Leopold’s Ghost describes a lot of events, beginning with the effort made by King Leopold make a colonial claim for the Congo and the inhabitants. One of the main topics described is New…

engraved upon your hearts, a date whose meaning you will teach your children with pride, so that they in turn will tell their children and their children’s children the glorious story of our struggle for freedom. For though this independence of the Congo is today being proclaimed in a spirit of accord with Belgium, a friendly country with which we are dealing as one equal with another, no Congolese worthy of the name can ever forget that we fought to win it a fight waged each and every day, a…

‘Indonesian mass killings’ or ‘Indonesian genocide’, which resulted in an estimated 1 million killed. At the heart of it all was radical right-wing ‘gangster’ Anwar Congo, star of the film The Act of Killing, was one of the leaders and head executioners of one of the…

Leopold II King of Belgium This paper you are reading is covering Leopold II and his reign in Belgium and the brutal things that happened in the Congo. It will talk about wat happened in the Congo. Also the things Leopold II wanted and desired. Then you will read of how his people Leopold II came to power upon his father’s death. His father Leopold I was the monarch or king of Belgium. A monarchy has succession by blood line. Leopold II rose to the throne because he was next in the blood line…

images of Belgian colonial rule of the Congo and the subjugation of the…

In the village of Onalua in the Kasai Province of the Belgian Congo, on July 2nd in 1925, Patrice Emery Lumumba was born. In his youth, Lumumba attended both Protestant and Catholic mission schools. Patrice was an intelligent student and and loved learning and literature. Despite setbacks like living in a house with no electricity, Lumumba expanded his learning. His teachers loaned him their own books because the schools were ill equipped and lacked supplies, and encouraged him to learn more…

Governments around the world today are using child soldiers as expendable, Frontline combatants in armed conflicts around the world. Every day in countries around the world, vicious warlords and military generals kidnap children from their homes and use them to further their own goals of national conquest. These children are made to kill hundreds of people and are manipulated into thinking that what they are doing is righteous. The use of child soldiers can be mitigated by supporting the…

How the theme Colonization is shown in the novel the “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad? The novel “Heart of Darkness” is a story about Africa mainly Congo which was colonized by European. The story is narrated by a man called Marlow who goes to Congo as a Stream boat caption. Here Conrad describes the Europeans secret evil of colonialism and their approach to exploit natives. Colonization can be seen through Marlow’s eyes the way European are treating the Natives and the treatment of natives…

“Congo is now total horror story, for years.” This is what Noam Chomsky, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, said after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the DRC, on January the 17th 1961. Unfortunately, he saw right. Since a few decades now, it has been widely observed that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African developing country and former Belgian colony, has been the stage of great instability; and notably massive human…