Since 2008 the mid October commemoration of Congo Week has sought to inform and educate people world wide on the ongoing crisis in the Congo. More recently an excellent thirty minute film has been produced which offers an overview of Congo’s tragic five hundred years of foreign exploitation and control. You can view and share the documentary “Crisis in Congo: Uncovering the Truth” by going to the web address at the bottom of this introduction. In 2019 Friends of the Congo organizers at www.friendsofthecongo.org have set October 12-19 for Congo Week events. But they urge us all to show the film at gatherings and share other materials from their web site at any time.
Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki noted, “There cannot be a new Africa without a new Congo”. The nation at the heart of Africa rivals and many say surpasses South Africa in the wealth represented by its natural resources. The U.S. was the first nation to recognize King Leopold of Belgium’s creation of the Congo Free State in 1885. And Congo became the focus of U.S. Africa foreign policy since the highest grade uranium used in the first atomic bombs was supplied by a mine in Congo. President Barack Obama declared, “If Africa is to realize its promise, the problem of the Congo must be resolved.”
To download and view “Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth” one of the two avenues below should take you there. Do respond with a comment to this blog post if you have any trouble.
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