Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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He next turned to the Soviet Union.
Lumumba was in power for only two and a half months.
The U.S.
and Belgium then supported another Congolese leader, Joseph Mobutu.
He would become a dictator that ruled the country with an iron fist.
He changed the country's name to Zaire, and he would be friendly to Western business interests, especially when it came to natural resources.
He would never sell uranium to the Soviet Union.
More and more rechargeable electronics like MP3 players, laptops and calculators started hitting the market.
And all of these items required natural resources to work.
A natural resource Congo had a lot of.
Cobalt.
Pick up is an understatement.
As more people around the world were buying smartphones, the demand grew exponentially.
It is a catastrophe that carries the weight of the past.
The shadows of the late 19th century system that forced Congolese people into deadly labor are still alive in the DRC.
And then you offer them a few dollars a day to do hazardous work.
That's it for this week's show.
I'm Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Coming up on our next episode, we're trying something new.
For the last few months, we've been asking you, our listeners, to write or call with questions or topics you can't stop thinking about.
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