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The Congo - Plunder and Resistance (Paperback)
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The Congo - Plunder and Resistance (Paperback)
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Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with
David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th
century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of
Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's
history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and
struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the
colonial period, there were military struggles against annexation.
During Belgian rule, charismatic religious figures emerged,
promising an end to white domination; copper miners struck for
higher wages; and rural workers struggled for survival. During the
second half of the 20th century, the Congo's efforts at
disentanglement from Belgian rule, the murder of the nationalist
leader Patrice Lumumba and the long dictatorship of General Mobutu
culminated in one of the bloodiest wars the world has ever seen. At
the start of a new millennium, this book argues that the West has
plundered Africa to its own advantage and that unrestrained global
capitalism threatens to remake the entire world, bringing violence
and destruction in the name of profit. In this radical history, the
authors show not only how the Congo represents and symbolises the
continent's long history of subordination, but also how the
determined struggle of its people has continued, against the odds,
to provide the Congo and the rest of Africa with real hope for the
future.
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