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Congo is a region in sub-Saharan Central Africa, that was ruled by Belgium during an era of imperialism. Once Belgium retracted from the Congo there was a time of uprisings and political instability. The army became corrupt and leaders asked for outside help to try to control the Congo. If Patrice Lumumba had not been assassinated, then political stability might have been achieved. Patrice Lumumba started a nationalist movement to try to get Belgium to retract from the Congo, which was unsuccessful

King Leopold II of Belgium colonized the African country of Congo with the help of American explorer Henry Stanley. Leopold desperately wanted the Congo to expand his small territory and to secure his place in the world. To do this, he sent Stanley to gain treaties from tribe leaders in the Congo River basin, from 1875 to 1884. Stanley succeeded in obtaining signatures through a combination of trickery and force. Ever since then, the Congo was dealt a low blow by invidious, violent takeovers. Leopold’s

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

his village at the age of sixteen. He became a sign painter in the capital of Kinshasa. In 1975, Samba opened his own studio while working as an illustrator for the local magazine, Bilenge Info. By 1980s his popularity started to rise outside of Kinshasa. Samba’s paintings are like a window to Kinshasa. His paintings depict his perception of social, political, economic, and cultural dilemmas in everyday life of Kinshasa. Through humorous and sometimes sexually explicit content, Samba’s “[…] main concerns

Akira Matzuo MAT-144 11/20/16 Professor Vaughn Mission Project The purpose of my mission trip is to go and provide fresh food and water to the children in the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The children there suffer from many diseases due to the lack of food that they have and in turn causes their immune system to be substantially weak. This is due to 55% of the people in the DR Congo being below the poverty line. I will be taking 4 other people with me to this trip and stay

several threats on my life and they would not give me any Medical attention there and worked me quite hard every Day when I couldn’t hardly get around my leg. You see they sent me right out of the Hospital one day and the next day I was put to work” (Kinshasa 186). This proves how Haywood Patterson was being treated in a brutal way and was not given any medical attention which is only one example of the miscarried justice. Patterson had not been shown the proper respect because he was being worked too

Country overview Central of Africa, northeast of Angola there is country that once was called “ZAIRE”. It wasn’t changed until the President Laurent Desire Kabila has overthrown Joseph Desire Mobutu and name it back to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1997. Congo became independent back in 1960 with of other East African neighbor countries like Rwanda and Burundi. As reported in the World Fact book of CIA, DRC has over 200 African ethnic of which the majority of them are Bantu. Their largest

I would like to express my interest in the supervisory-visa assistant position, announcement number 17-07. I believe that my profound experiences through works, internships, and volunteer would make me a great candidate for the position. As a naturalized US citizen, I have completed my High School and university in the United States of America. My last years in college, I was involved in various volunteering opportunities. As an intern and volunteer in the resettlement department at Lutheran Service

Mission Statement: The Dikembe Mutombo Foundation is dedicated to improving the health, education and quality of life for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Foundation strives to accomplish this goal through an emphasis on primary health care and disease prevention, the promotion of health policy, health research, and increased access to health care education for the people of the Congo. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to identify the leader of a nonprofit organization

I’m going to talk about Patrice Emery Lumumba, leader and the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, calling for national unity and overall African independence. He became the head of the first government of Congo when the country had Independence. Born on July 1925, he was killed on January 17, 1961, because he was opposed to the colonizing country and demanded the Independence of Congo. P. E. g meetings Lumumba was a writer and a civil organizer before co-founding the