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November 2008

Footage from 1960/1, immediately after Congo's independence from Belgium, and featuring good shots of Lumumba and Mbuto, as well as a rare riot at the UN in 1961.

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[A86]

Better under colonialism? You mean when everyone in Africa was poor except for the white colonialists and they were chopping people's hands off for rebelling against the white invaders?

[ScottishInfoWarrior]

@jerikco1 FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG GLOBALIST PRICK

[100crawma]

@TheRalphus666 bingo you are correct, i used to haul the 4.2inch motar in one

[100crawma]

the united nations is a joke, disband it it is a useless institution

[TheRalphus666]

12:40 That A.P.C looks just like a vietnam-era M113 APC which would make it over 40 years old.

[A86]

@axzel575 - I know. That's what I was just saying to "McCarthy331". It seems many African countries are just as bad off under colonialism now that the white tyrants have been replaced by black tyrants.

That comment from 2 years ago was responding to a few comments below me where some people were claiming Africa was better off under colonialism and longing for the "good ole days" of Rhodesia and Apartheid-era S. Africa. Which was just as shitty, just in different ways.

[axzel575]

@A86 their making their children rape their mothers that's just as bad

[A86]

@McCarthy331 - I'd like to see more "Made in Congo" watermarks and stickers as well but we're probably more likely to see "Made in South Africa" and "Made in Nigeria" ones (in the next 5-10 years for the former and in the next 15-25 years for the latter) before ones for Congo. Still, I hope and pray countries like Congo, Malawi and Burundi can be pulled back from the abyss.

Being a US citizen I also hope we don't continue on our path to end up like the Soviet Union in 1989-91. :(

[A86]

@McCarthy331 - We'll probably see more economic prominence from S. Africa before other African countries since S. Africa was listed in 2010 as a "Newly Industrialized Country" and continues to drive much of the continent's foreign investment and industrial production. Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana, Angola, Namibia (and Tanzania and Sudan to a lesser extent) are the next African countries most likely to become more prominent and industrialized. Maybe some time in the 2020s or 30s.

[A86]

@McCarthy331 - Though I would argue that this cycle won't completely end as long as Western companies monopolize productive capital in Africa and Western governments continue to install or fund Mobutu/Idi Amin-type puppets. Even though Asia's economic growth is slowing I think China, India and S. Korea will probably continue to be the most dominant non-Western economies for a while as Western economies lose prominence. Not so much Japan because it's spiraling downhill like most of the West.

[A86]

@McCarthy331 - Even though the violence, poverty and AIDS epidemic in much of Africa has declined some since the late 80s-early 2000s it's still at critical levels for many countries. Far too many African nations are still basically unofficial slave colonies with a population of poor peasants hounded by RUF (those barbarians from "Blood Diamond" and Nicholas Cage's "Man of War")-style thugs roaming the countryside and Mobutu Sese Seko-clones tyrannizing the country from their ivory mansions.