Democratic Repbublic of the Congo - INDEPENDENCE

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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Here is a great article by Anup Shah about how DRC went downhill after their independence

Posted by Alicialz at 6:05 PM

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Travelers of the World:

Portugal was the first to arrive in DRC, but did not colonize them completely, but discovered great raw materials for trade. However, they traveled to other parts of the world to colonize, like Indonesia.

More on the Downfall:

After Independence, DRC went through a major downfall. Here is a blog with a lot of information on the events that occurred after 1960.

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Sources

A:

Encyclopedia Britannica online, s.v. “Democratic Republic of the Congo,” accessed February 17, 2012, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/132363/Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo

B:

Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DROC). Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=Relevance&prodId=DC&tabID=T001&subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C32%2529democratic%2Brepublic%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bcongo%2524&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R1&displaySubject=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SU%2CNone%2C32%29democratic+republic+of+the+congo%24&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&inPS=true&userGroupName=clar46581&sgCurrentPosition=0&contentSet=GSRC&docId=EJ2305100383&docType=GSRC

C:

Democratic Republic of the Congo. Junior WOrldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=Relevance&prodId=DC&tabID=T001&subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C32%2529democratic%2Brepublic%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bcongo%2524&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R1&displaySubject=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SU%2CNone%2C32%29democratic+republic+of+the+congo%24&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&inPS=true&userGroupName=clar46581&sgCurrentPosition=0&contentSet=GSRC&docId=EJ2171000001&docType=GSRC

D: Heale, Jay and Lin, Yong Jui. Cultures of the World: Democratic Republic of the Congo. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010.

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