The Congo Rainforest

The Industrial revolution was the time when Belgium started using companies and factories for more advanced inventions. The Congo had copper, gold, diamonds, rubber, cobalt, and that’s just a small portion of what The Congo had to “provide” Europe with the natural resources they needed. These African natural resources made other countries have the desire to create trading corporations and companies. As a result ivory and mineral wealth was stolen, to create wealth and power for Leopold, this means, he went into the congo thinking only about himself, power, money, land, and slaves. Insofar as Europe, the slave trade was the main attraction of these european nations, because they saw a cheap labor and uncivilized country begging for colonization.there was deeply rooted racism in europe towards Africa and maybe that's why slavery was so big in Africa because yes, they did have the natural resources, but they weren’t considered “equal” to the europeans. But not only did leopold take natural resources from Africa, he also treated the people of the Congo like

In a way it was a precursor to the oncoming storm of the slave trade and its global impact. However it is evident through the letters of Afonso, in this moment, that although Africans were collaborating with the Portuguese in trade that they did not want them to kidnap their nobleman or weakening its currency. Furthermore, the trade relations of the Atlantic Age specifically with the Portuegeuse and the Kongo help us understand the expansion of commercial exchange between West Central Africa and Europeans and give us a glimpse at the long-term and widespread impact it would have in

Over a period from 1960-1965, the first Republic of the Congo experienced a period of serious crisis. There was a terrible war for power that displayed senseless violence and the desperation to rule. There were many internal conflicts among the people. The country eventually gained independence from Belgium. For many countries this would be a time for celebration. Unfortunately for the people of the Congo this became a time to forget. Almost immediately after independence and the general elections, the country went into civil war. Major developed cities like Katanga and Kasai wanted to be independent from the Lumumba government. Different factions started to fight the government and Katanga and Kasai tried to secede from the rest

There are a lot of strategies that could be used to help maintain the Congo Basin rainforest. But, I believe that, "Providing education on effective farming methods and resource conservation," is needed to conserve the resources of the rainforest. I think this because it will give the people that live in the rainforest more trading opportunities and it will reduce how many trees are cut down because they will not have to cut down more trees for more usable soil.

Disease such as malaria are degrading the society and causing a lack of educated youth in the Congo. The children are the future of any society. The main goal of the United States is to have a well educated and effective group of children who will grow up and lead the country to success. The Congo off course would

Riches in central Africa. In what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was and still is a plethora of natural resources. Rubber, gold, copper, diamonds and more. That natural wealth has definitely hurt Congo in the past rather than helped. Its resources could have made it one of the wealthiest countries in the world. But yet, this future did not hold true for the Congo. At the turn of the 20th century, King Leopold II began to take notice of the central African country. (National Black United Front). King Leopold II communicated all his ideas and intentions through a speech to European missionaries. (Africa Global Network). In it, his words held the key to all things terrible. Soon, Belgium took over the Congo and began one of the

never expected for The Congo to be the way it was so of course they bought what their

The article describes well the scientific elements so almost anybody could understand what the article is trying to convey, however a prior knowledge of the metals tungsten, tin, tantalum and gold; and their role in technology would be beneficial. The knowledge of the metals worth would also be helpful to understand the conflict. Also a knowledge of the electronics involved in smartphones would help with an understanding of the importance of the 3TG metals. The article introduces the knowledge that it is possible for the production of the 3TG minerals without fuelling the conflict in the Congo. It is possible for the minerals to be vetted to know if they had been involved in conflict however the companies involved are unwilling to be involved in the process. The article expresses a number of significant relevant influences, one in particular being political influences. The issue surrounding the mining of conflict minerals not only influences the government of the Democratic

At these moments, life in the Congo is a living nightmare. The eastern provinces of the Congo see violence every day. Women are getting raped at alarming rates. Children are constantly abused and forced to become child soldiers. There are no sources of medicine or even clean water. Anyone can get murdered at any time, and no one is even safe in their own homes.

Secondly, presenting the wilderness of Africa as the deep inside of the jungle could be the second objective of this fiction. Wilderness setting is critical and indispensable feature to set up the faster approaching to author’s narrative objective and Congo where is surrounded by a dense forest in the jungle could be also important to present the wilderness and uncivilized zone. Setting up the Congo is easy to compare with Europe where is the big part of an Earth and well-civilized place, because Congo is deep forests in Africa and it is not well-civilized place as the colony of Europe. In this point, comparison between African and European is clear to criticize imperialism under the purpose of spread of civilization, but the real purpose is

The global trade of coltan, instead of helping develop the domestic economy in Congo, leads to serious problems in this country. First, the trade leads to the exploitation of children labor and increasing rate of rape. On account of large quantity demand for coltan, more and more workers are sent to the quarry. In the video “Blood Coltan”, children aged from 10-15 years old are commonly seen working in the quarry. Rather than studying in a school like we do, these poor kids have to work several days and dig out only a small amount of the mineral. When asked what coltan is used for, they shook their heads, saying that “We don’t really know, we just know that it means money.” Every young body in the village must dig the mountain and there is

2012: 21). The country is very rich in coltan holding approximately 80% of the world’s coltan reserves and as a result, is also associated as a “blood diamond of the digital age” (Mantz 2008: 36). The production of Tantalum in the Kivus region began around the same time as the first year Congo war in 1996 (Jackson 2003: 7). Coltan became a highly sought commodity beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the sudden global demand for cellular devices and Sony PlayStations (Mantz 2008: 36). This resulted in a “Klondike-style” rush within the DRC where people began to surface-mine coltan in the World Heritage Site National Parks - controlled by rebel-armed groups (Hayes & Burge 2003: 11).

The Democratic Republic of Congo has had civil strife ever since its independence from Belgium. Mobutu Sese-Sekou ruled the DRC from 1965-1997. In 1997, he was overthrown by opposition forces led by Laurent-Desire Kabila. This started the 36 year long conflict in the country (“Congo: Diamond Mining and Conflict”). The conflict was between Mobutu’s coalition group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) and the government led by Kabila. The RCD was located in the east of the DRC where the rebel groups were established in conflict mining. They were supported by Rwanda and Uganda and were looking to take control of the DRC towards the west. At the same time, both the Rwandan and Ugandan governments participated with the rebel groups in conflict mining. The governments of Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Chad helped slow the advance of the RCD towards the west (“Congo: Diamond

The Republic of Congo’s government will continue to weaken and will not be able to work successfully. To strengthen the economy you must first have balance in the political development and democracy, which in fact is organized by policies modeled by The World Bank (International Monetary Fund 6).

The Europeans are trying to change the natives of the Congo to the way of life they believe is better and correct as their slaves. The Europeans force the natives to work on getting ivory they need to export back to Europe. The native people are more like property to them, making them leave their homes to go to work for the them, and in the process take away all the freedom they had. The natives have been forced to give up their former way of life to