HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kinshasa, Congo Crisis, Mobutu Sese Seko

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Don't Know

Document Summary

Disaster in congo (1960 66: the congo was blessed with fertile land but it one of the worlds poorest countries today. The zairian sickness" sheds light upon the challenges associated with colonial independence. Decolonization in sub saharan africa: states in africa were not actually nations, at the congress of berlin, the. European powers drew out colonial boarders = 1886 berlin conference: the. 1958, and representatives from throughout sub-saharan africa gathered to talk about independence and colonial injustices, speaking mostly english and french, while invoking the french revolution and. Western philosophy: as a result, by 1967 nearly all the dominoes in sub-saharan africa had fallen, with the exception of the portuguese colonies of angola and. Brief history of belgian congo: king leopold: the congo was his creation and greed his motivation, rubber and blood. The heart of darkness" slave state created a system of apartheid --1908 the congo free state enlightened.