First Congo War

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…

Belgium. Even though Belgium was already under his restricting rule, he was nowhere near reaching his point of satisfaction. Leopold needed another country to gain personal wealth and power from and intended extracting valuable resources form the Congo Free State. This only begins to explain Leopold’s greed and terror and how he would have to be forcefully removed from power by the many courageous groups of individuals. During this reign of tyranny and terror, missionaries and human rights…

and the quality of water and land. Palm Oil is a vegetable oil that is applied to many foods and routine household items which can grow on palm tree in the abundance of rainforests. It first got its appearance in West…

parallel between Marlow 's commitment to his journey to find the infamous Kurtz and the journey to the heart of imperialism. Marlow 's journey has begun aboard “The Nellie” when his idea of imperialism is one of efficiency. As Marlow journeys down the Congo in search of the notorious Kurtz, he is astonished of the inhumane practices and the falsities that the idea of imperialism entails. Conrad shows that the idea of imperialism brings false power and purpose to people who believe in the horrid…

and non-human primates. Bats have scientifically been implicated as the natural reservoir of Ebola virus (Swanepoel et al., 1996). They are very common in sub-Sahara Africa and can migrate up to 2500 kilometer (Reference). The 2007 outbreak in DR Congo is evidently linked to the annual massive migration and hunting of fruit Bats in the region (Leroy et al., 2009). In 2008, Ebola virus antibodies were detected in 32 of 88 Bats screened in Ghana, of these, 9 were ZEBOV positive (Hayman et al.,…

Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, is about Marlow, a European going to the Congo to work for an ivory company to find one man, Kurtz; he has been out of sight for a while when the reader first hears about him. This book expresses views on both imperialism and racism. Although there is not a lot of substance to the book does not mean it is not worth anything. Heart of Darkness shows the reader events and facts about the Congo one should know to really understand it. Shows how bad the Africans…

The jungle in Heart of Darkness represents the imperialistic nature of The Company, and Mr. Kurtz represents the native people of the Congo. The reason for imperialism is to enlighten those who needed enlightenment, or those who were deemed lesser in development by the outside world. The imperialists, in this case The Company, see themselves as stronger, and more dominate over the natives. On page 15, the description of the jungle in contrast to “a tin shed and a flag-pole lost in it [the…

The events that occurred in Africa during the colonial period are unspeakably cruel and just flat out wrong in many ways. The British saw opportunity in Africa after Dr. Livingston went off on the first exploration of unknown parts. Dr. Livingston went MIA in Africa, so months later the British sent Henry Morton Stanley to find him. Stanley ended up finding Livingstone in a small village on the shore of lake tanganyika. Stanley was working directly for King leopold, from Brussels. These two…

By holding international conferences, Leopold was able to display his rationale for conquest: “Curbing the slave trade, moral uplift, and the advancement of science” (42). First off, Leopold put a big emphasis on him wanting to curb the slave trade by protecting the natives from Arab slavers. Since slavery had been abolished, Leopold knew that Europeans were on a moral campaign to stop these Arab slave traders from continuing…

was an opportunity to gain wealth and power. Together, they devised a strategy to for Congo. Stanley would first set up base at the river’s mouth and then build a single road around the rapids as a guide for a railway. Over this road, porters would carry steamboats in pieces up to the rapids, which Stanley would later construct and use to travel upstream, building a chain of trading stations along the entire Congo River. Stanley’s motives were clear to the public, while Leopold reached “new…