a recurring theme in Humans. they hate what they desire. I have a similar issue tbh but on a massively minor scale, I absolutely hate eating meat or anything heavy, and commonly tell my friends not to either, but I as well ate meat twice this week. Unlike Mobutu though I am actively searching for a solution on this matter, I think I nailed down the issue to me being too comfortable, might have to get my house to freezing temperature and start working out again.
He hated how Christianity was changing our culture, he hated how we abandoned our God, names, language, and culture over Belgium French. None of the things you mentioned were exclusively European.
Important context: the only reason the United States propped up this guy is for the uranium in Katanga. They didn't want the Soviets to get it. Once the cold war was over, they left him out to dry.
Actually it was mostly about cobalt. Why? Well uranium was mined in several places, however cobalt, an important metal for military technology was at that time only found in two places in the world. Congo and... you guessed it... the USSR. Without access to Congo cobalt, the USA would have nothing, nothing at all, which would in their mind mean losing the Cold War.
@@immortalituss and the uranium mined in shinkolobwe was used to bomb hiroshima and nagasaki. Maybe that s the reason the country is in shambles🤷🏽♀️resources from their land were used to kill other human beings. The wirkd is crazy…..
Ur acting like that’s ok cause they stop letting him be president.US government and CIA knew he would destroy the country but they didn’t care and just wanted to make sure it’s a part of US influence.And if u still think the US isn’t imperialist and doesn’t still use dictators then do research
Despite claiming he's anti-capitalist, he had the backing of France, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, and the US. And him spending his country's money on lavish Concorde shopping trips to Paris...tells us exactly how oxymoronic his leadership was. Republic of Congo...Best Congo
Stop simplifying Africa's problems. Who arms both sides of the divide? Who builds up a man's ego until he believes he is a God? Mobutu did not make himself ... he was made!
The name congo didn’t come from Belgium mispronunciation And Kikongo is just a language spoken by KOngo people (people from former kongo kingdom which is one the largest tribe in congo now) The word congo was based on kongo kingdom (tribe ) Bcz most of powerful people at that time were from west and north where the kigongo and lingala are more spoken And they wanted to impose all Congolese to speak one language which would be lingala But to avoid more divisions especially with people from south east who are Swahili speaking people Including myself that didn’t happen But they did succeed to impose all the soldiers and police officers to speak one language which is lingala until to this day
@@kholeka8475 it was the name of the river. the bakongo (kongo kingdom) called it Nzadi river. « Nzadi o Nzere » the river that engulfs all other rivers. The Europeans mistranslate it to Zaire.
In those years, Mobutu was a good agent for the USA against the USSR in Africa. The West needed Mobutu, so Mobutu could ask anything he wanted from the USA and he got it (like Ali vs Foreman battle...today Kagame has replaced Mobutu and he is the man of the USA and the British. Kagame does what he wants in Rwanda and DR Congo...he knows he will never be worried...until he is no longer needed.
I strongly believe the war in Rwanda had everything to do with the overthrow of Mobutu. These white devils are capable of doing the worse just to get what they want! Sometimes there’s more behind the scenes than we see. For there’s this view that Mobutu was helping the Hutus against the Tutsi’s. While all these were happening, Kagame was been trained in the states to take over power! You know what the rest of the story is! Kabila overthrew the dictator, and I’m sure he was also eliminated when they had no use for him. Replaced by a man people claim is never the son of Kabila and not a Congolese! The story of DRC is a very sad one! The west will be judged! I pray that everyday!!for the Africans that keep been puppets, may God also not forgive them.
The man was sick, I remember his visits to Togo (West Africa)…. We had to change our first names. I am a proud African but to think that one person can request of a whole country to change their given names, to adopt whatever his mind suggested to him is still beyond my understanding … Yes we should proudly have and carry our African name but not under coercion from a dictator The west supported Mobutu to have their hands on the minerals … look at the videos of the lavish parties he gave to the French political elite at his residence in the south of France, the French politicians lined up to collect the dough….the west closed its eyes while atrocities were carried out in the country… everybody knew what was going on …. They all knew he was killing his own people and destroying the country, yet they flattered him …..made him feel important, they all knew it was a cynical disturbed joke at the expenses of the Congolese Like many African leaders of that area, he was poorly educated and easily manipulated by the west, he wanted to be “loved” by his colonial masters…. He wanted to be loved and be taken seriously by his western counterparts…. A twisted legacy of colonialism….. Sad for Africa…a country that rich with all the minerals needed to run the modern world economy yet is classified among the poorest on earth
Hello, I have a couple of question if you don't mind answering, also I'm sorry if asking these questions might seem suggestive, I really don't have ill intentions writing this: in light of historic events and known information as well as studies about human physiology would you say that it'd be easy to create a sort of nazi like ideology but revolving around the subhumanity of the white race to unite Africa under one banner? Do you think it is possible for the white race and the black race to coexist in peace? What should transpire for that to happen? Do you believe that patriotic and nationalist sentiment among Africans is a natural consequence and foult of white imperialism and thus justified to be? Is African nationalism different from European nationalism? (By that I mean it doesn't lad to xenophobia) Can a black man be rascist against a white? And finally, do you see christiany with all its denominations as a white man's tool, and therefore a fake belief, or is christianity true, but it so happened that unfortunetly the word of God is used against humans by sinful whites? I humbly wish you a good day and hope you'll respond to my questions.
I have a couple of question if you don't mind answering, also I'm sorry if asking these questions might seem suggestive, I really don't have ill intentions writing this: in light of historic events and known information as well as studies about human physiology would you say that it'd be easy to create a sort of nazi like ideology but revolving around the subhumanity of the white race to unite Africa under one banner? 1-The caucasians are not subhuman, many of my trusted friends and family members are caucasians, what is the issue here is greed, the desire to dominate by some (black or white). You will not unite Africa by hating whites, if you do it, Africa will destroy its soul.... I do not believe in hatred between the races Do you think it is possible for the white race and the black race to coexist in peace? YES What should transpire for that to happen? 2- Harmony, peace, fraternity.... You seem to imply some afrocentric view of the world... I am for human dignity and respect for the human race (black or white) Do you believe that patriotic and nationalist sentiment among Africans is a natural consequence and foult of white imperialism and thus justified to be? 3- All over the world nationalist sentients are visible, French are patriotic, Americans are patriotic, Vietnamese are patriotic, European are proud of their culture.... African are and should be proud of themselves, of their history, of their culture regardless of the past......Africans must not be patriotic because of colonialism, but despite the wrong of the past Is African nationalism different from European nationalism? (By that I mean it doesn't lad to xenophobia) 4- I have seen Africans who hate whites and whites who hate Africans, it is not a white or black issue, it is a human issue..... People, black or white should be proud of their culture of their origins for there is no superior culture... they (cultures) are simply different Can a black man be rascist against a white? YES And finally, do you see christiany with all its denominations as a white man's tool, and therefore a fake belief, or is christianity true, but it so happened that unfortunately the word of God is used against humans by sinful whites? 5- I do not clearly share your beliefs.... I do not hate white people, I am an African, and some of the people who made the most meaningful impact on my life happened to be white, some people who positively changed the course of my life are white and I see them as family.... I have seen wickedness among blacks...we do not have the monopole of virtuousness by being black.....I find your insinuations a bit simplistic not encompassing the complexity of the situation, the complexity of human psychology. Africans have been wronged, there was power differential in our earlier interactions with the whites, no question about it, but the amalgam you are putting forward is not appealing. Christianity is a beautiful religion when applied with its intended morality, it is a code of conduct... I will not call it a fake belief... that will be an insult to christians the world over I humbly wish you a good day and hope you'll respond to my questions.
@@Wezon5738 Thank you for answering. I was just curious, as I have writen, if any of what you read seemed suggestive, that was not my intention. Its just that I've seen different views regarding the topics I have put forward in my questions. For example, the simple question if a Black person can be racist towards a white...not everyone would answer as you did. Because of different definitions of rascism. The American definition is different, my country's definition is different and then there's this intuititive universal one that everyone "knows" and we all sort of agree on it.
It’s a shame that this video won’t get the views it deserves. I wish videos about subjects other than European/American history would perform well, but I guess that’s up to viewers like us.
@@Spritedude212 yes, there wasnt that much trouble at the borders, there wasnt as many political prisoners, chinese people treat there workers like shit, lit more gangs, scholar system is casi non existant, its a giant mess
@@infamouskwame I agree with you, not to mention to futuristic projects he attempted to bring to light, Congo space exploration, Africa's first nuclear plant, the limiter tower physics center that still makes Congo appear ahead of time until today. He actually launched a Rocket
I read the Belgian Congo was beginning to industrialize by the late 1950s. The Congo had a good chance to become a wealthy nation and Mobutu flushed all that down the drain out of naked greed. Thank you for exploring this depressing topic. You've earned a sub!
They always kill or dopose a progressive leader and replace him with a despot who they prop up, advertise and defend at all costs in return for allowing them to rob Africa. Mobutu is not any different from Museveni. Its Neo imperialism at its best.
Pretty much every African nation had a good chance of becoming wealthy. Sadly, they opted for state centric, overly ambitious, industrialization-over-agriculture policies, which lead to massive corruption, waste and exploitation of majority of their population (the people working on land). It took 7-8 years for people chanting praises for Kwame Nkrumah, to people chanting as they toppled his statue since he ruined a prosperous country. There's an optimistic agricultural report on Congo from 1962 available online (it was written prior to independence, I think), that gives some sense of the bright prospects for Congo in particular. There's also a great article on 'How socialism underdeveloped Africa', but its only partially available, and its also the only English place that deals with the 'L'Afrique Noir est malpartie', a book by the sadly unheeded Rene Dumont. It reconstructs the foibles and follies of African leadership post-independence.
NOT true.. Belgium being cousins to french would not have done anything to make Congo better for natives.at independence few Congolese were educated to even take over the country. The independence was more like abandonment because they came back to sabotage, leading to killing of Lumumba
@@bloggtalk5085 i still believe Lumumba being the instigator of the congo demise. may he rest in peace but he should have negotiated for a smooth exit of the belgians instead of it happening abrupttly. i was born in the DRCongo and saw how things have changed from the belgian era to what it is today….. it is just too sad to even start relating here.
Changing the country's name to Zaire was a smart choice for Mobutu, considering his regime was....very much the opposite of democratic. It would've been ironic. Even more ironic was the name of his party, "Popular Movement of the Revolution"...if by revolution he means giving all the power to himself, then sure
None of us were sad to see Mobutu go, that's for sure! In Rwanda we used to play Monopoly with the Zairean franc, it was that worthless by the end of the regime.
White people shouldn’t talk about black history like u guys don’t get the context and threw reason for a simple reason white peoples still haven’t took responsibility for what they did and they still can’t see black people as equals to understand the three story of mobutu u need to look up some of the conference made by African historians on the subject white people mœurs and black people moeurs aren’t the same u guys can’t explain black history correctly. It’s no Odense it’s the truth cause saying mobutu ruined congo is just repeating the lies that are told till this day to black people. It’s participating in misse informing my people. White peoples should really stop trying to explain black history.
When independence was achieved, the coalition government of Pres. Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Lumumba put Mobutu in charge of defense. In a rift between Kasavubu and Lumumba, Mobutu helped Kasavubu seize control. He established single-party rule and Africanized all European names, changing his own to Mobutu Sese Seko
Not quite. The answer is simple: he forked over the money for it, and made it a big cultural lure with authenticite and 'return to Africa', etc. But by that time Congo was already not prosperous; the copper incomes plummeted, and Zairianization caused economic chaos. South Korea had already risen higher and in a much more economically stable way. Though, this is also a time (1974) when SKorea had turned to hardcore HCI industrialization under the yushin authoritatrian system. It was just about to leave the rest of the underdeveloped world in the dust and become what we know today.
@@beorntwit711 You're partly wrong, partly right. Wrong, in 1974 the Congo's economy was still sound: the prices of diverse minerals were still high, including the mainstay, the cooper; and the country's currency was still very strong (1 Zaire = 2 dollars). This was a great incentive for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman to materialize "the rumble in the jungle", in spite of the Zairianization and radicalization policies, whose negative consequences were mostly felt in 1976. The turning point occurred in 1975, the year the commodities' prices plummeted due to the oil crisis, bringing the economy into a tailspin and compounding the misfortunes brought about by the Angolan civil war that cut off the less costly exporting of raw materials from Katanga province through the port of Lobito. For the raw materials had to be moved by railway from Katanga to the port of Ilebo, in the Kasai, then transported in ships from Ilebo to Kinshasa, and finally on railway from Kinshasa to the port of Matadi. On the other hand, you're right to point that the regression of the Congo's economy in mid-1970s was coeval with the rapid industrialization of South Korea. President Park Chung Hee, who, as Mobutu, was an army general, a ruthless dictator, and propped up by the USA, was a totally different breed of statesman. He had the merit to establish a developmental state, put en end to the corruption of the Rhee regime, and initiated a series of five-year plans that diversified the economy and set on prosperity upon export-oriented industrialization by his takeover in 1961. My master's dissertation in political science is a comparative study of transitional economic policies of the Congo and South Korea during that era.
It is very sad to hear all kind of reports about African leaders or so call dictators when the one who declared all of this are the one builders and creators of the African’s misery and struggle the big problems we have in the world is we are not looking the problem from it roots or source .The one who made Mobutu are the one destroyed ,criticized and judge him.
Mobutu could not ruin Congo as he was merely a CIA employee. If you are a foreign CIA employee, you know you are an expandable asset. His mission was to protect the US interests in Africa. From the arrest of Nelson Mandela to the assassination of Samora Machel he was told to follow orders from the US government.
Paul Kagame was indeed Minister of Defence between 1994 and 2000 but in Rwanda under President Pasteur Bizimungu, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was in fact an allie of both
I truly appreciate how much you left your own politics out of this. It was an incredibly informative video and I have very little to add. I will say that something to mention potentially as a preamble is just how twisted the borders left behind from the colonial powers contributed to the instability. I'd also mention on a more subjective level that raising a people up from primitive privation to the levels of socioeconomic wealth isn't a single generation affair. For example IQ is strongly influenced by nutrition and literacy. Nutrition I will not address but literacy for example is shown to raise the IQ of people quite a bit, especially over the course of generations. You can see examples in Africans who move the the US and after a generation start producing intellectuals. In Nigeria that's even happened at home. Ignoring the cumulative effects of nutrition and literacy over the whole of a population is a folly most historians are guilty of.
No country lacks smart people hence even the smartest and most educated people have to undergo a selection process to access research or engineering jobs. Most innovations are made by a handful of people in every generation while the smallest country has literally thousands of smart individuals. Our world has never had a shortage of genius. The main issue is how a society uses the intellectual resources available. When smart people are not given a chance to make a difference, IQ does not really matter.
@@noviloba IQ absolutely matters and how you claim the best way to utilize it does as well. The research around IQ is vast and it should be common knowledge at this point. Your huge statement on how people are used/distributed requires a bit of building up. Off hand I would reject it as a statement nobody can know/beyond individuals but if you can refer me to some credible research I'll gradly read it and my mind is open on that subject.
@@andrewevans4722 I did not said that IQ does not matter, only that statistically human populations of millions always have a surplus of smart people. Just apply the normal distribution to 10 million people anywhere in the world and you will find out how many thousands should have a high IQ, based on this probability distribution. There's always more than enough to fill all the top universities in the world. That's why elite institutions cannot use all the smart people available. You do not need references to credible research to validate this, you only need an average IQ and an understanding of basic statistics.
@@noviloba Okay we are largely talking about different things. The real problem are those on the bottom end and how to raise them up. If you have below 85IQ you cannot read and follow directions. Not just that, there are only so many jobs available to people at that level. We live in an increasingly technical society and these people get left behind. The only things research has proven is that IQ is raised generationally with consistent nutrition and the presence of books in the home growing up. What many developing countries deal with in my opinion is what to do with the generation of two that hasn't caught up yet as they end up in the margins of unemployed or disadvantaged. In America, segment by segment, this happened group by group. My great grand parents for example were likely not college material.
@@andrewevans4722 I don't live in America, in Africa however most people still live in the countryside, so they are well adapted to their environment with the level of IQ they have. It's not sustainable for the whole world to live like Americans anyway. The resources of the planet are far too small for that. It befalls smart people to find better and more sustainable solutions for the whole of humanity. That's the point of having people who specialize in solving complex problems... In a good society, nobody should be left behind.
Well, many people like claiming Africa sided with the Soviet and that what caused Africa’s economic decline while not acknowledging African countries like DR Congo, Liberia etc that sided with the USA and they haven’t gotten better since then. I am glad Africa is getting smarter especially with the Russia vs western world. Africa is not aligning with nobody. Cold War definitely had negative effects I’m africa that been felt till today.
@@ikengaspirit3063 It only ruined the countries that adopted it such as: Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Guinea among others.
I believe the DRC will climb out of this mess in a not that far away future. The country has a population of more then 100.000000 people, a young population, many resources. They have a very successful diaspora. I believe we will hear from this sleeping giant in the next 50 years.
@@TheBastardo007Hope so, but seeing what happened to other other ethnically diverse countries, like Burma and South Sudan, I’m feeling rather pessimistic
Paul Kagame was never Uganda’s Minister of Defense. He served in the Ugandan army as a military intelligence officer (having grown up in Uganda as a Rwandese refugee). He then went on to join the RPA fighting the Hutu regime first, and later the genocidaires. After that, he was Vice President and Minister of Defense of Rwanda, although in practical effect he was the de facto leader of Rwanda, which was true at the time of first Congolese war.
I used to believe this kind of narrative, but its very wrong, it only works if you dont actually look at the metrics of the nation during that period. After suffering mass exploitation and a real holocosts under belgian colonials, Congo had almost no education system, health or administration, only the extraction of raw materials with almost 0% invested back into the country. Mubutu certainly was a dictator, but he was also the first leader to actually build for the people of Congo way more than the proceeding colonials.
pleasantly surprised you said that 3rd way is fascism, you and TIK history are the only ones ive ever seen do that. youve earned a sub and a like from me
Please make sure your audio levels are higher, this is the first video I watched from you and I had to turn my TV up way to high (I couldn’t sleep at 3AM and have roommates), your old Mobuto clips are very loud while your voice is much quieter. I would suggest looking up how to use a compressor and comparing your audio levels to the clips you insert, as well as making sure your audio is as high as possible without going to distortion (get your peak at 0 decibels on whatever DAW or video editor you’re using)
And you can’t even spell Dag Hammarskjold’s name correctly… The evidence actually suggested pilot error since the plane hit a hill on the approach to the airport.
he was allowed to do this because the cia supported him before he became leader if the usa corporations and american state dept did not support him he would not have been in power for 30 yrs or so he served their purposes.
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Besides the brief period. of The Belgian Congo (1908-1960) the Congo has never been a anyplace anyone would choose to live. Did Mobutu ‘screw it up’ or did it just return to it’s normal state after Belgian colonization stopped?
Funny how India, USA, Canada, Brazil, Vietnamese, Chinese, all moved on from colonialism, but not the primitive Africans. Even today they kill each other over tribal differences
John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mobutu gone now, we have a new dictators from Rwanda and Uganda Museveni 36 years of dictatorship, Paul Kagame 27 years in dictatorship and combined together we got 63 years of instabilities. Both dictators are respectively also dictators in the DRC
Can u pls fix the audio consistency. Such a nuissance having to readjust after not hearing anyting to someone screaming in my ear. Really kills d enjoyment of d vid.
Are you serious? Under Mobutu, We Congolese never experience genocide. 6 millions were killed after Rwanda and Uganda backed by United States invaded Zaire. yes, Mobutu was a crook but he was not the one who ruined it. Congo was better off under his regime than the current one.
Mobutu's De-Westernisation and African Nationalist "efforts" are the only things I would agree on and do myself too. In everything else, he pretty much fucked up central Africa.
Correction: The name congo wasn't a mispronounciation of KiKongo. Kikongo is the language spoken in Kongo Dia Ntotila. It was a Kingdom with a King. Its capital city was called Mbanza Kongo.
They will keep burning in hell! Those Dulles brothers were good at assassinating people! From Martin Luther, Lumumba, their own president John Kennedy! When nazi maniacs are employed to cause doom! The CIA is filled with nazis to cause harm to them that are seen to be hindrances to the greedy men in the west! If God doesn’t punish the west for all its evil against Africa and the Middle East, then He Must be dead! Their sins are just unimaginable.
When Mobutu took over there was not much to be ruined. But he didn’t do a better job than the Belgians. At the end of the day the government of a country reflects aspiration and talent of the people of the country.
Right. Like how Putin represents the aspirations and faith of the Russian People. Or how Orbean is the Character of the Hungarian Nation, And how Former President Donald Trump is the American Dream.
If you read the comic book Wanted, the villain Adam One was roughly based on him. Obviously, he wasn't the first person, but it must have felt like that to those suffering under his rule.
Learning about American interference and propping up Mobutu through the cold war is saddening. Uranium from DRC was used in the bombs for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Western Countries are now talking about human rights, God's time is the best for Black people around the world, where is Roland Reagan and Magret Thaherther all gone America
everywhere you see conflicts like these with revolutions permanently, look at the trail of natural ressources, and ask yourself, who pays the destabilising mercenaries.
