sovereign Congo!” These were the famous last words of Patrice Lumumba’s speech proclaiming the independence of Congo on June 30‚ 1960. Not only did they end a speech which marks the achievement of decolonization in Congo‚ but they also highlight the specific objective of Lumumba as an anti-colonial activist and future Prime Minister: to create a united Congo through united political parties and Congolese unity. As Congo demolished colonial rule‚ Lumumba provided a case on the grounds that Congo emerge
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Q. What is the relationship between “biology” and kinship systems? A. Kinship can be defined as society acknowledging biological connections between people. This view however has been challenged because kinship systems are regarded now as too complex. C. Levi-Strauss (1963) argued; “Kinship…only exists in human consciousness.” The correct way of studying the relationship between biology and kinship systems can only be made by looking at particular societies and cannot be made universally. Biology
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fundamentals" and that it represented "experience pushed a little (and only a very little) beyond the actual facts of the case." In fact‚ many details and even characters in Heart of Darkness come from real life and also from some pages of Conrad’s Congo diary. Conrad started his career as a sailor on a French ship. In 1878 when he was at the age of 20 he worked on an English steamer. For the next 16 years he sailed under the flag of Britain‚ and became a British subject in 1886. Life in the
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King Leopold II of Belgium acquired the Congo as a free state and exploited it by reign of terror. King Leopold II took over leadership of Belgium from his father‚ hoping to gain power and wealth‚ as well as assuming control of overseas territories like most other European nations of the time did. Leopold created‚ through political lobbying and military force‚ the Belgian Free State. The Belgian Free State gave Leopold power over the African territory of the Congo‚ which he soon exploited for its large
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Yet there are extremely horrific outcomes of imperialism. Allow me to shed light on the dark perils of imperialism imposed upon the Congo by King Leopold II‚ with which I disagree‚ through the years of 1885 to 1908. If one leaves it to King Leopold II of Belgium‚ his intentions were pure. All he wanted was to improve the living conditions of the poor people of the Congo. However‚ King Leopold II was a ruthless‚ capitalist‚ tyrant.
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Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga‚ usually shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or just Mobutu‚ ruled what is now Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1997. Although the atrocities Mobutu committed as dictator are real‚ one can draw several comparisons to the fictional rule of Big Brother and the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Oceania. Firstly‚ both leaders secured power by obliterating all references to the past. As the old Party slogan goes‚ “Who controls the past goes the future; who
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ANTHROPOLOGY---CHAPTER 11 HAND-OUTS ON : “MARITAL RESIDENCE AND STRUCTURE OF KINSHIP “ In this chapter‚ we studied the marital residence explains the newly married couple usually establishes a place of residence apart from parents or relatives( neolocal residence). But about 95% of the world’s societies have some pattern of residence whereby the new couple settles within‚ or very close to‚ the household of the parents or some other close relative of the groom or bride. Neolocal (new-place) residence
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access to the huge territories in the Congo River basin was considered impossible due to the impenetrable forests and the impassable rapids of the river itself‚ which served as a barrier to European exploitation. The adventurer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley gained the interest and support of the Belgian King Leopold II for his expeditions into the Congo basin ‘to prove that the Congo natives were susceptible of civilization and that the Congo basin was rich enough to repay exploitation’
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within the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There actual location is found in the southern part of the Ituri Forest (The Mbuti of northern congo‚ 2006). Mbuti people have a nomadic lifestyle within a certain territory and live in a subsistence economy‚ meaning they only produce what they need to survive (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010). They make their living by hunting and gathering‚ and this has had a big impact on their kinship‚ political organization‚ and their beliefs and values
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signed in January of 1960. The first public voting was held May 11th through the 25th of 1960. Patrice Lumumba won the election and on June 23rd 1960‚ he became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo. Also Joseph Kasa-Vubu won the election for the President of the Congo. On that Independence Day in 1960‚ Patrice Lumumba gave an impromptu speech speaking about how the independence was not gained without years of oppression and injustice (Bio.com). The speech he gave was well liked
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