Where is The Congos? Why are there two Congos in Africa, what are they and why the difference? It is by revisiting the history of colonization, conquest and wars that one will come to realize these answers. On the Podcast today, we met up with two young ladies who are currently living in the US but are from The Democratic Republic of Congo and not The Republic of Congo. The Congos were colonized by two competing European Countries, France and Belgium, so that today, these independent African Countries are separated by a hybrid identity largely the result of European domination and conquest where one half of these peoples were colonized by the French so that today The Repulic speaks French and the other half, Belgium so that the Democratic Republic speaks Belgium. The Congos are currently independent nations since 1960 but just like other colonized countries in Africa and the global south, are dependent capitalist countries, with high levels of poverty and some amount of instability and local infighting over whatever resources is left after European domination. However, we learn that The Congo while an important country with a resource used to make many devices we hold in our hands today, they are the creators of rumba and are a very bucolic simple society with deep culture, varied cuisine and flavorful music. However, the study of the Congo continues to reveal the reality and result of the Black Position in the world today. The discussions here form part of a study on looking at the development of privilege and power and the reality of the human dynamics today as we study power and its strategies problems for human progress. But what is interesting, is that almost every former colonized country today, except for Canada and the US that had white settlers and the Puritans from Europe, and to some extent South Africa, are struggling dependent capitalist countries with high levels of crime and violence and some amount of instability. Further, not only is this situation evident nationally, but among peoples and places in post-industrial countries where there is concentration of black and brown people, progenitors of nations that suffered conquest and domination under colonialization and the slave trade. This is discussed in my book Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance, and is picked up in Book 2 - Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered.
Renaldo McKenzie is the Creator and Host of the Podcast, Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University, Graduated from The University of Pennsylvania and is currently an Academic/Lecturer, President of The Neoliberal Corporation and working on releasing his second Book by December 2022, Neoliberal Globalization reconsidered, looking at the dynamic of neoliberalism and its effects on peoples.
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