CONGO'S COLONIAL LEGACY SHAPED ITS CURRENT STATE

African Stream’s ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast episode no. 18 explored the three-decade-long, Western-backed proxy war over natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that had k*lled about 6 million by 2010 and internally displaced about 7 million as of last year.

Here, Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of Friends of the Congo (@congofriends), breaks down why we must consider the mineral conflict continued by Rwandan and Ugandan compradors (natives loyal to colonialists) within the context of Congo's colonial past, which divided the land amongst Europeans and g*nocided its people.

Watch the whole episode on our X and Rumble accounts, and on YouTube (search for @ahmedkaballo4170).