Vijay Prashad: Resource-Rich Congo Still Fighting for Its Own Wealth 64 Years After Independence

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On what would have been assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba’s 99th birthday, we speak with author and analyst Vijay Prashad, who has just published a lengthy article on Lumumba and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ongoing struggle for control over its own resources. Sunday marked the 64th anniversary of Lumumba’s historic speech marking his country’s independence from Belgium, in which he delivered a blistering critique of colonialism. Lumumba’s rise to become the first elected prime minister of Congo came after decades of brutal violence under Belgian rule and the extraction of vast wealth in rubber, ivory and other commodities from the country. Lumumba was assassinated soon after taking office in a plot involving the CIA and Belgium, leading to decades of dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko, wars, poverty and resource exploitation that continues to ravage the country to this day. “The issue of control over resources is fundamental,” says Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. “The Congolese have never been able to put forward a national project around how to unite the people. … This has always been suborned by external intervention.”
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@ulehlud9027 3 ай бұрын

Congo should be the richest country in the world. Centuries of resource exploitation that continues today.

@0_P.E. 3 ай бұрын

If there was ever a real life Wakanda, Congo was it until the colonizers came along.

@agnikollias6678 2 ай бұрын

Belgium 🇧🇪 and USA 🇺🇸 should pay this money back!!!!!!!

@xoxamyyyx 2 ай бұрын

they asked the french to leave recently? have they left yet or are they going to cause war for asking for this?

@arcanondrum6543 Ай бұрын

Death and Slavery for resource extraction and yet the resources are put into products meant not to last. TWO people drive to work ( on rubber tires - > 0:21 ) per family, ever since a certain President told us that helping the wealthy would help us all. Mass Transit? "We have no money for that" and yet those same politicians never hesitate to put the country into increased debt with unlimited spending on weapons. Trinkets, advertising, products that purposely don't last very long, it is a shameful result after such a high cost to human life and the environment.

@justmyopinion9883 2 ай бұрын

What happened to Patrice Lumumba was heartbreaking. All he wanted to do was help his people.

@alainyadila8277 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Democracy Now for recalling the story of Lumumba❤

@stephen_pfrimmer 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Vijay Prashad. Thank you Amy.

@TolbertAnt 3 ай бұрын

Kinda of an insult…I’d recommend picking non book readers… natives from that area

@olawaleesan 3 ай бұрын

The ongoing waste being laid to Congo is extremely distressing and disheartening

@Madasin_Paine 2 ай бұрын

Get this channel protects its liberal California Billion heir Base and their friends like George, Sorotic, and Gates who are buying up large amounts of land for which can be mined but should be used as open space or for farming. No mention of people like musk who are going after the minerals to topple places like Bolivia and places wherever the world has money making minerals. These guys cry the tears but really they're just trying to persuade their viewers the same way meat is preferred by dogs but they toss us bones. Basically these guys have become actors and that's why they're on this program.

@lifencruise 2 ай бұрын

I'll never forget what Belgium and The CIA did to Patrice Lumumba.

@tlo0542 2 ай бұрын

Canada was involved as well, as well as the UK. And we talk about bullying today, amongst kids, well it happens on the world stage as well, where the stakes are murder. Criminal murder of heads of state, and yet we here in the "West" lecture the world about democracy and "Rule" of law? We are a complete joke here in the west. We are drunk narcissists. Drunk on our own delusional power which is now waning.

@jujutrini8412 Ай бұрын

AND Mobutu! Don’t forget him!

@SheEsq 3 ай бұрын

I have an old t-shirt with this quote that comes to mind after watching this vid: "We must not only heal the suffering that oppression causes, but we must also heal the suffering that causes oppression" - sterling toles

@DiamondBodyHealing 2 ай бұрын

nice. thank you.

@sljt8d2g7nfp4ua6ey 3 ай бұрын

Please keep teaching us the facts.

@ddonaldgeorge 3 ай бұрын

to .. PATRICE LUMUMBA... long live lone power.. RED GREEN AND BLACK forever..😔😪🩸♥

@VeteranWayne 2 ай бұрын

The more I learn about 🇺🇸 historical foreign policy the more I am disgusted.

@allencallahan1478 3 ай бұрын

Mr. Prashad is the developing world’s Noam Chomsky: his commentary on, and commitment to, the analysis of sub-Saharan anti-colonialism is superb. May his tribe increase!

@matthewgibson1937 3 ай бұрын

Hear, hear!

@DiamondBodyHealing 2 ай бұрын

using the term 'developing world' shows you are clueless about geopolitics and anti-colonialism.

@Kenan-Z 2 ай бұрын

@@DiamondBodyHealing Spot on

@matthewgibson1937 2 ай бұрын

@@DiamondBodyHealingSeizing on my brother’s words, ridiculing him, and dismissing him harshly shows that we have been taught well by our oppressors. I get where you are coming from; however, a gracious tone promotes true learning - and what we want, I would think, is an environment in which the learned reward those who are stumbling towards enlightenment.

@MuantanamoMobile 2 ай бұрын

*Global South

@adstix 2 ай бұрын

0:41 Very telling picture! Lumumba's Judas standing behind, pondering his own selfish agenda! Congo has not recovered from that treachery and trauma after several decades!

@johncoleman3953 2 ай бұрын

The criminality against black and brown bodies is an offense before God! "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord, I will repay!"

@smallscaleminingsupplies9670 2 ай бұрын

They killed Lumumba, than installed a tyrant and a thief for more than 30 years, than they ask whats wrong with the Congo

@SharonAna-hl9ix 2 ай бұрын

All the lies are starting to unravel.

@damali-karlawhittaker6462 2 ай бұрын

True!

@donesecarr3570 2 ай бұрын

Same game plan in Haiti & others. Haiti is not poor. Sittimg on largest deposits of iridium. See the pattern. 😮😢

@nicolenims3850 2 ай бұрын

They even lecture you on it

@bbills4186 2 ай бұрын

@@nicolenims3850lecture, chide, and scold you on what they have wrought. If there is a hell they are going to it. 🔥🔥

@Nisrine55555 3 ай бұрын

Vijay Prashad great Marxist thinker!

@AKAndoh 3 ай бұрын

Remembering Patrice Lumumba on the day of his birth! Thank you Vijay for your work which dispels western engineered myths about the Congo, Africa and Africans, the criminally depraved, dysfunctional dynamic in which Africa is bound to western economies to their detriment. The continued colonization under different guises by the West's policy of underdevelopment and destabilization for their benefit at the physical, material and intellectual cost of the Congolese and Africans. May journalists, researchers, activists and others from around the world unlearn these myths to discover and configure the missing puzzle pieces for a cohesive Peace, in understanding why and how to overcome the ultra racist, hyper capitalist hegemony to achieve authentic DECOLONIZATION. When Africa is liberated the hegemonic machine cannot sustain itself. And importantly to achieve reprieve from centuries of plunder by the usual psychopathic suspects in order for Africans to inherit their wealth for the benefit of their people and cohesive equanimity for the rest of the world.

@seansmith3058 3 ай бұрын

Do those usual suspects include Rwanda and Uganda?

@AKAndoh 2 ай бұрын

@@seansmith3058 The policy is to clear East Africa in particular, the countries bordering the Congo, instrumentalizing unconscious regimes which at last will be on their menu too, similarly to those who they betrayed. Fascists always turn on each other and finally on themselves. The logical conclusion to fascism is GENOCIDE and at last Extinction. These are depraved emotionally and spiritually under developed life forms. They are anti human, digging their own graves.

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

@@seansmith3058No, it doesn't.

@honey4clover 3 ай бұрын

So appreciate the conversations on vital issues like this that still shape our world to this day. More people, esp in the west, need un-doctrinate themselves from the veneer of our “democracy”!

@vladimirp9003 3 ай бұрын

Then til now nothing has changed.. Humanity has nothing human about it. Between Africa & Ayiti their being punished for standing up straight, then given the Bible to comply to

@PROGRESS4eva 3 ай бұрын

The Bible is complicit when it comes to keeping my people spiritually and mentally enslaved...

@vladimirp9003 3 ай бұрын

@@PROGRESS4eva smh I seen the difference I attend catholic schools, and I was an altered boy. Then having hood friends that were baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses and all of the above I felt like a real life twilight zone. How do you have nuns overlook them and look for a little boys? Then in the churches, how are you freaking everybody’s wife everybody’s daughters stealing everybody’s money and telling us to pull ourselves up by the boot straps and it’s a greater day.

@Iknowknow112 2 ай бұрын

@@PROGRESS4evaexactly! Why African peoples everywhere adopt the religion of those without a shred of piety. The Abrahamic religions have given The Diaspora division, narcissism, gross materialism and violence , the same gifts it gave to the oppressor.

@josecleophas363 3 ай бұрын

sad that videos about the congo gets such poor views

@0_P.E. 3 ай бұрын

I hate that this always the case when it comes to African centered news but it just further shows the hold that white hegemony has on the psyche of this entire planet.

@0_P.E. 3 ай бұрын

I hate that this always the case when it comes to African centered news but it further shows the hold that western hegemony has on the psyche of this entire planet.

@0_P.E. 3 ай бұрын

I hate that this always the case when it comes to African centered news.

@Jake-eq3ub 2 ай бұрын

They prefer to hear it from forums who spread hate

@lorismehdibotuluabuy6535 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Amy for talking about RDC👏🏾

@GueveraianKingsian 3 ай бұрын

Lumumba Vive!

@chrismathis9240 2 ай бұрын

The West needs to pray to their god that the God of the Africans will have mercy on them.

@bbills4186 2 ай бұрын

Fact!!! 💯

@Asheroyal12 3 ай бұрын

2000 years of History could not be wiped away so easily. Robert Nestor Marley❤️🖤💚

@henriomoeje8741 3 ай бұрын

Kwame Nkrumah is the greatest president to govern a state in Africa but the powers that be felt threatened and decided to dethrone him, short of killing him like they did Patrice Lumumba 🇬🇭 🇨🇩

@yaoliang1580 2 ай бұрын

He was removed by a CIA sponsored coup bcos he wants to back control of his own country's rich resources for the benefit of his own people instead of being controlled by those huge western corporations. This is the reason why those leaders in Washington DC wanted him replaced by someone more obedient

@etownsterguy9489 2 ай бұрын

I won't live long enough to explore all these historical "outrages" and the extraordinary people along the way. Thank you Democracy Now for shedding light on those subjects completely ignored by MSM.

@augusto3113 3 ай бұрын

They don't teach these thing at school, we must share all this important histories

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

Why would the Western educational system teach this?

@augusto3113 Ай бұрын

@@taq1238 Why would the Western educational system teach about the colonial explotation of the african continent? Promoting Social Justice: Education about colonialism is essential to address historical wrongs and promote social justice. It encourages discussions about reparations, decolonization, and human rights. Teaching about neocolonial exploitation is essential for fostering an informed, empathetic, and critically engaged citizenry capable of understanding and addressing the depravity of neocolonialism in the present day. We need to promote empathy and a deeper understanding of the ongoing suffering faced by people in formerly colonized countries.

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

@@augusto3113 I'm assuming you are an American. Teaching Critical Race Theory is already an issue. The subject of colonialism or neo-colonialism would be another hot button issue. For years the US has obscured the fact that Puerto Rico and Hawaii, to name a few, are to this day US colonies so they have no interest in giving you the tools to figure this out. The US education system is in the business of indoctrination, not in developing a nation of informed critical thinkers. This is why so many Americans do not develop an interest in the history and culture of others and very rarely will pick up a book to supplement the sub-par education received. It is my hope that more people will understand why the ideology of Pan-Africanism is important and why there is a concerted effort in the US to promote xenophobia among Black Americans.

@StateOfPurgatory 3 ай бұрын

Amazing knowledge Thank you Vijay , for your all teaching

@latrekistaboricuablogger7421 3 ай бұрын

African Unity - I like the sound of it. It's important to remember SUB Saharan Africa is real different from Northern countries. I'm no expert, just saying.

@JayToons 2 ай бұрын

Patrice Lumumba and Tomas Sankara will be always remembered.

@donHooligan 2 ай бұрын

Libya was pretty amazing before NATO destroyed it, too. RIP Colonel Gadaffi

@kevinwilliams1768 3 ай бұрын

excellent interview

@BeverlyBurnette-ll2gl 3 ай бұрын

His spirit is here now❤

@readysetgo4321 3 ай бұрын

Amazing interview. Democracy Now, bringing it now.

@benjaminwallyjoof3577 2 ай бұрын

Vijay you should appear on the Joe Rogan show. Thank Democracy Now

@milopart 2 ай бұрын

is a same as Algeria the Algerians paid dearly lives (over10millions) for the independance and then the puchists militias army lead by Boumedien in 1963 confiscated the Algerians independance with the help of degaule and french establishment, So from 1963 Algeria unrest and people seeking the true independance, liberty and freedom Hands OFF Africa

@yunglynda1326 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@nadiawheeler4772 3 ай бұрын

Thank you

@DiamondBodyHealing 2 ай бұрын

vijay is always a phenomenal guest. Always gives a master class in every interview. He's an amazing communicator not just a thorough researcher.

@fortheloveofwater_ 2 ай бұрын

I really don’t know how to approach this subject as despite descending from family who are from the region once considered the greater Congo Empire which is including Angola and the two Congos and the Central African Republic, I can only begin my critique by acknowledging that I am complicit as I use one technology that requires lithium cobalt batteries, I affiliate myself with a sustainable and green revolution of the west because of its potentials to uplift many out of poverty and diversify economies so radically that we create thousands upon thousands of new jobs and industries but all the whilst knowing that industrialisation is what brought polite, destruction and fragmentation to many people and families from Congo including my own The familial trauma and scars that were left behind from generations of war, disease, destruction and cultural erasure ripple through my lineage and have affected me, I can have an historiographical approached understanding these things but the lived experience of a broken family and how it has affected my prospect and this world is in escapable and philosophising and intellectualisation can only go so far. From the event of the motorised vehicle and bicycles which depended on the rubber to the gold diamonds and plethora of other mining derived resources that the country and surrounding countries offer the global economy. Politics are so intensely fraught in Africa and in particular this region just because of how much people have plotted and instigated around these resources to shape local and global politics, that I don’t really see how this will end beyond challenging the centres of demand in both the east and west Rile megapowers of international trade and commerce.. Namely China and the USA, I don’t mean to be sensation honest when I say that slavery hasn’t really ended, the way which we employ the mechanisms of slavery suddenly have changed and therefore might provide someone with a sense of it having ended but that’s only because it’s not obvious anymore and that forcing a 17-year-old to go into a mind to dig by way of the locally economy being practically non-existent and the prospects of a job that caters to his desires to better himself and pursue his own authentic story simply not provided for a lot of people have to live life never really exploring themselves and their authenticity, but instead of moving by way of the pressures that economy place on them in order to survive Then you have people on the far right claiming that African should go back to where they belong and the only qualified workers could enter their countries get the stabilisation that was caused by their presence hundreds of years ago still remains through continued presents and domination in the so-called developing world, extracting minerals and resources For their own economic growth, placing puppet politicians and positions of power and influence and never really allowing for a population to overcome and work on a balanced/equal footing with their counterparts. It’s just a terrible mess a shameful dreadfulness 😊

@JeervinJohnson 3 ай бұрын

Falasteen will teach America what it has turn it back on أ عطني الحرية أعطني الموت “Give me liberty or give me death " the words of Patrick Henry, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first governor of Virginia. A gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution, his rousing speeches- which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"-fired up America's fight for independence. Free Falsteen فلسطين حرّة Desert Storm Veteran مقاتل عاصفة الصحراء المخضرم

@damali-karlawhittaker6462 2 ай бұрын

Happy Birthday 99TH PRESIDENT PATRICE LUMUMBA! 🎉

@ipsilonia 3 ай бұрын

facts

@countryroadsofficial7 3 ай бұрын

Amy next time for the love of respect please contact a local university professor in the mentioned countries to contribute, it makes little sense to have foreigners talking about colonialism,,,,, would you ever invite Congolese to talk about US national politics???

@seansmith3058 3 ай бұрын

Talking about the problems of DRC with no mention of the two major wars there is more than a little selective.

@countryroadsofficial7 3 ай бұрын

@@seansmith3058 and the ongoing one, not to mention Rwanda's and companies like apple's exploitations and crimes.

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

The speakers own country experienced colonialism. He is qualified to speak on it.

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

@@seansmith3058Who destabilized these countries and set them on a path to war?

@seansmith3058 Ай бұрын

@@taq1238 I was talking about one country, the DRC, and what are called the First and Second Congo wars. The roots of those conflicts are highly complex, but simple people will always want simple answers. I leave you to it.

@abdullahc6931 3 ай бұрын

Another example of the US empire going down

@SusanGarvey-m2c 2 ай бұрын

I always wondered why they killed Lumumba and now I know. Thank you, Professor Prashad from a former Trinity student

@panagenesis2695 2 ай бұрын

Oligarchs are terrible.

@jerry-q8f 2 ай бұрын

they have to first get europe and america out of Africa

@Dreadedwarrior 2 ай бұрын

Salute to all the real leaders/ancestors who lost their life's trying to help their people 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

@jamesmcarthur7392 3 ай бұрын

i wonder what it's like to live in the third world, where the rivers run red with the blood of their heroes

@bbills4186 2 ай бұрын

I wonder how people in so-called first world countries can live with all the destruction they have wrought globally?🤔

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

I wonder what it is like to be indoctrinated to ignore the same thing that has happened to the Black leaders of America.

@rickyraynor5513 2 ай бұрын

Looking on PL picture it pain my Heart ,woe to the Oppresser they have eaten the breads of their Sad tomorrow

@samdegoeij6576 2 ай бұрын

The only thing the West left of Patrice Lumumba was a tooth! 1 tooth, nothing more! And even that tooth was kept from his family members to be buried until a few years ago and the only thing Belgium did after a massive pressure campaign during the height of BLM was promiss the payed repatriation of that tooth and an official apology to Congo and its neighbours; Malawi, Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda parts or the whole of those countries were part of the Belgian Congo at the time. Their rightful reaction was to shrug their shoulders and say: "Actions speak louder than words and reperations and repatriation of stolen goods and art are needed before foregiveness is given." I have no love for royalist like those who simp for the house of orange in my country that to this day racistically claim we went there to bring; democracy, culture and civilization. All those talkingpoints are white supremacist nonsense.

@tothelighthouse9843 Ай бұрын

We colonial powers will never willingly give up our stranglehold. Moral arguments fall on deaf ears. We would rather sell arms to the right-wing genociders than imagine ourselves surrounded by free aspiring nations.

@sandwich_technology 2 ай бұрын

I remember going to the wiki (Leopoldo) and it said “private ownership of the Congo”, demonic phrase

@waterfall1100 3 ай бұрын

As a progressive leftist Chinese, I think it is a tragedy that the US supported the ouster of Patrice from DRC and replaced him with Mobutu……

@yaoliang1580 2 ай бұрын

The is the reason for the US endless wars of aggression around the world. To remove any leader that dare disobey their orders n replace them with a corrupt puppet who can be easily bribed to sign very favourable deals that gives huge benefits to US corporations n their mining companies to control their strategic assets n extract resources at very favourable terms

@morr3349 2 ай бұрын

Mobotu to Lumumba is like Compaireb to Thomas Sankara. This treachery got to stop in Mama Africa

@dwehnma819 2 ай бұрын

DRC needs man like Ibrahim Traore of Burkinafaso

@BookwormtoBookworm 2 ай бұрын

More people need to hear this message. The book, White Malice explains this.

@BekaluYedane-zc6zk 2 ай бұрын

I always get mad when westerns call themselves democratic nations.

@agnikollias6678 2 ай бұрын

Stop colonialism !!!!! Stop imperialistic games !!!! Long live Resistance !!!!!!

@LuntadilaPaulo 2 ай бұрын

I love Democracy Now for it's accurate and unbiased reporting... I also admire the fact it was brings relevant stakeholders to speak on matters that affect the people they represent... it shocks me to see that a moncongolese is speaking on a subject for 🇨🇩 and console people... This is just one more way of excluding the congolose's people voice and self representation and determination in forging their own destiny. I would encourage the production team to reconsider this interview and actually invite a Congolese to speak for his or her own country and history.

@Eyeofthestorm812 2 ай бұрын

I so mourn for our President Lumumba. He was cruelly murdered on his own land and now we are told to forget and the IMF and World Bank have the nerve to say the Congolese owe them debt?! Or the nerve to warn the Africans about Russia or China for wanting to do trade? Unbelievable. The USA, UK, and the West should mind their own homelessness and Demented, Fascists in positions of leadership. We Pan Africanists around the world are watching. 😢🖤❤️💚🇺🇸

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

Yes! we will raise generation after generation of Pan-Africans until the yoke of oppression is finally removed from our necks. ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY, ONE LOVE 🇯🇲

@TyroneRowe-t3i 2 ай бұрын

We will never forget him..."THE BLACK VETERAN FOR REAL JUSTICE "..B1...FBA..BLACK NATIVE..USA.

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

FBA? Aren't they xenophobic Black Americans? They have no respect for anyone outside of the bubble of Black America

@pdlawton9103 3 ай бұрын

Paul Kagame's Rwanda keeping majority of Congolese in poverty

@balkrishnarai5305 3 ай бұрын

✌️

@pao6097 3 ай бұрын

The sins of our country (and the British) go way back, don’t they

@philipzaccheus8398 2 ай бұрын

Informative Information for knowledge seekers listening is an important asset for acquiring OWNING OWN knowledge for better understanding lasting satisfying knowledge conclutions.

@pg-l4469 2 ай бұрын

Whoa! I wonder if that review of Neo Colonialism can be found online or something like that. I'd love to read it

@guidedtime 2 ай бұрын

Read “white malice”

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

Read "The Wretched of the Earth" by Franz Fanon.

@chrischibumba3747 2 ай бұрын

I wonder when Africa will realize that Africa's developmental renaissance is closely tied to the development of the DRC.

@Frederique41 Ай бұрын

Franz Fanon was from Martinique a French department based in the Caribbean. Please mention the correct facts!

@margaretfahey8090 2 ай бұрын

Most if not all of us now have a network of nano electrodes in our brains and we can be given forced virtual reality experiences at any time and from a distance without ever knowing who is remotely manipulating our brains and bodies. This is a type of unconventional warfare being fought against us. It can only be carried out with artificial electromagnetic radiation such as microwave radiation. If we switch off the supply of microwave radiation and 5G radiation, the radiation which comes from smart street lighting and the radiation which comes from low orbiting satellites, the enemy will have no electromagnetic radiation power to torture us with. Please share this information with all military technologists in your location in order to protect yourself from remotely generated torture, remotely generated enslavement and remotely generated death. All we have to do in order to defeat the enemy is to switch off the power to the microwave transmitters, the 5G transmitters, the smart street lights and the low orbiting satellites. The enemy are nothing without the artificial electromagnetic radiation which comes from those transmitters. We don't even have to be violent with anyone to win out against the enemy.

@End_Zionism 2 ай бұрын

Unbelievable how resource rich the Congo has always been and still is, the whole world has robbed its people of their resources and their humanity.

@lufuluwabomikiladi 2 ай бұрын

IT'S VERY SAD TO HEAR THIS. WE WILL BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT THE WESTERN POWER, MEANS THAT DRC AND THE CONTINENT WILL SEE NO PEACE....

@yayahbarakwan6849 2 ай бұрын

Hope for Free and sovereign Asia-Africa-Latin America

@joebruce7481 2 ай бұрын

Ghana 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 some of them didn't listen

@mahalallel2012 2 ай бұрын

Also, the Arabs and the Chinese take tons of there gold for cheap...

@UncleDavid 2 ай бұрын

people think ants are small but they always hold hands to build bridges we work so hard to destroy

@xoxamyyyx 2 ай бұрын

they asked the french to leave recently? have they left yet or are they going to cause war for asking for this?

@MerhawieGuosh 2 ай бұрын

Kkkkkk who are you why do you speech about African

@damali-karlawhittaker6462 2 ай бұрын

IT WAS HISTORICAL CONFERENCE!✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿👌🏿

@oohweeoohwee9222 2 ай бұрын

By the picture you can tell he's been to a few nation of islam meetings.

@nyxiz4232 2 ай бұрын

Vijay Prashad is a good human from my vantage.

@marieromain1076 2 ай бұрын

THANKS for EDUCATING. As USUAL.

@TolbertAnt 3 ай бұрын

Amy seriously we talking about Africa with “Vijay” ………there’s no Congolese native? College students are great at reading scripts but natives hold more weight

@AsifiweMunguJackson 2 ай бұрын

MY COUNTRY KONGO DRC GOD BLESS MY PEOPLE

@Moorishman13 2 ай бұрын

First the fact this lady start off by saying this is democracy now shows what jurisdiction she coming from cause nowhere in the constitution for the United States of America does it state the word democracy the united states was built on a Republic first fact. Go look it up if u don't believe me

@taq1238 Ай бұрын

We know, so there is even more reason for the US to stop forcing democracy on others.

@boogy1956 2 ай бұрын

Free Congo from western vampires

@IggyZgalf 2 ай бұрын

Yup, CIA alright

@monicastigler 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this work.

@samirataha9417 2 ай бұрын

Great informations.

@DekiaMoses 2 ай бұрын

Chairman saluuuuute

@donovanmcgrath3122 2 ай бұрын

Thanks to you and your guest Vijay Prashad for bringing the issue of the West’s stranglehold on the DRC (and other African nations) due to its mineral wealth, which is of strategic importance to the balance of power for the US, Russia and China, to a wider audience who may be unaware of the importance of this African country in world affairs.