Democratic Republic of the Congo

After the Democratic Republic of the Congo gained freedom from Belgium in 1960, they had to build a stable government and economy. When the Belgium left the DCR a lot of Belgian people left also. Few teachers, doctors and other professions remained. In the chaos that was left behind, ethnic groups fought for power to gain control of DCR. In 1965, 5 years after DCR gained freedom, Joseph Mobutu gained power as a dictator. He took over foreign industries and tried to make those industries a monopoly. He decided to borrow money from foreign countries to expand local industries. However, he misused many of the funds that he acquired from abroad. Mobutu became very rich while the rest of the country went into poverty. He mostly used violence to persuade and murder people who challenged him. Under him, DCR seemed to be in a worse situation than when they were a colony.

The main visual elements are the "black Africa" and the boot print in the middle of Africa. The political part is how Europe has put their "boot print" all over the world and now they are coming to Africa. The dry part in side the boot print may symbolize how Europe dried up all of Africa's natural resources.

Central African History and Culture

Most of the early history was based on the Kongo Kingdom. The Kongo Kingdom is located near the mouth of the Congo River. The Kongo people established trade routes to western and eastern Africa. They grew rich from trading animal skins, shells, slaves, and ivory. When Europeans came, they wanted forest products, ivory, and other resources. They used ivory for fine furniture, jewelry, and statues. Some kingdoms got richer from trading, but usually in the end all of them weakened. Most of the that Central Africa speaks is French, Portuguese, or English. The 3 main religions are Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism.

Scramble For Africa

In the game, Jeremiah and I represented Portugal. The resources we need to get were coal, iron, and copper. The strategy we used to get the resources we needed was that we looked in the atlas and see where the resources we needed were. The factors we need to consider was that other countries might need the land that we had, so what we did was we found a lot of resources that we needed that were in different places just in case another country got the land. The country that won was France. The team who lost was Portugal.

Central Africa

The physical features of Central Africa include large rivers, huge rain forests, and some of the highest mountain ranges in Africa. Some of the main physical features are the Congo Basin, the Congo River, the Zambezi River, and the copper belt. All are necessary for Africa. There is also a lot of wild life in Central Africa. Some of the animals are gorillas, elephants, wild boars, birds, monkeys, bats, snakes and okapis. The okapis looks like a horse and a zebra combined. Central Africa also has many valuable minerals. They include copper, uranium, tin, zinc, diamonds, gold, and cobolt.

Julius Lester To Be a Slave: true or not

I think that Julius Lester's book To Be a Slave is true because I have heard of most of the information from this book happen in other places (books, movies, tv shows, ect.) My second piece of evidence is that he was never convicted of fraud for this book or any of his other books.

Central African Republic

Who: Central African Republic
What: UN Peacebuilding Delegation Visits Country
When: November 5 2008
Where: Central African Republic
Why: To help build peace in Africa
How: Talking to them

http://allafrica.com/stories/200811071055.html

Movement

Does Violence lead to more Violence

I think it does because if someone starts a war than the other person wants to fight back, he wouldn't just do nothing, he would fight back. In the play, after Caesar dies and the crowd finds out by means of Antony, they want to riot against the senate. But Antony wants them to revolt against the senate at the right time. And also when the towns people kill Cinna the poet just for his name, and they did that because Cinna the conspirator was one of the people who killed Caesar.