Wednesday, March 7, 2007

History of the Congo

Mrs Watson assigned us the task of researching the events that occurred specifically from the time periods of 1955 - 1966 and then later discuss the more recent years of 2000 - 2007, so we can see the differences and how much Africa has grown since then.

There are many events that occur of which deals with the Congo. President Eisenhower ensured to the United States that everything was running smoothly as planned in Africa. When actually it was the total opposite. During this earlier time period both the US and Africa were debating whether or not to make the Africa turn into a communist Nation. Although the US would rather have Africa not become communist due to sarcastic remarks made by US officials such as, "No responsibility for Africa. Let them go communist if they feel like it" (Kingsolver 96). When in reality the US desires Africa to stay away from Communism because US is still acting as a "parasite" if you will. In a sense that they are feeding off of the goods and natural resources that the US finds very valuable since the resources there are of much abundance. During majority of the most of the years in 1900's Belgium had a major influence in Africa. They basically controlled all of that nation and was ruled by the Belgium army. An important idol to Africa was Tata Lumummba. This political man had much insight and knowledge about Africa's need and problems. This is why Africa supported him to gain a higher position to represent Africa and fight to gain benefits. An example of Tata Lumumba's spirit was determined to move forward on the road of nonviolence and peace. The soviet saw Tata Lumumba uprising to overtake the Belgium Army and accomplish an independence for the Congo and decided they would take this chance to overcome both forces and dominate the Congo for their own. In the
end Khrushchev didn't have that big of an impact to the Congo. His quest for domination was interrupted and instead Lumumba elected Prime Minister in May and created the Republic of Congo as they receive their independence from Africa in June 30,1960. As the Republic of Congo sets up their government they decided to make
things neutral so that everyone in the parliament will get along with each other.

During the recent years of the Republic of Congo's history there has been a great war between the African Nations. During the year 2001, the troops were lead by Laurent Kabila with one purpose, to achieve peace between the Nations and have an inter-Congolese dialogue. At the pace Kabila was going he was assassinated and after his death his purpose was avenged by his son. The war had ended during the month of April in 2004 and many people had suffered with a tragic number of 3.8 million people death count. As soon as this calm state began the African leaders had decided to reform their government by adding four vice presidents in July 17, 2003.

Work Cited

Pike, John. "Congo Civil War." GlobalSecurity.Org. 2006. 7 Mar. 2007 tp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/congo.htm>.
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