Professor shows impact of Congo's resources
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By Nicholas Dean/reporter
Congo is essential to humanity, a history professor told SE students April 23.

Photo courtesy Indiana University School of Liberal Arts Indiana
University department chair Didier Gondola presented Congo Square to
Congo Digital: Why Congo Matters to SE Campus students April 23. He
explained the importance of the Congo's natural mineral resources.
Didier Gondola, history department chair from Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis, presented Congo Square to
Congo Digital: Why Congo Matters.
"Congo has always been the key to our humanity," he said. "Because of
that, Congo has been the victim of global capitalism and exploitation
throughout its history."
The movie Avatar has striking similarities to what is going on in the
Congo, Gondola said. Countries such as Rwanda or Zimbabwe came over to
Congo to take its natural resources.
"You would think that James Cameron is using Congo as a template for
the movie," he said about Avatar.
Congo's resources are important to the world, Gondola said.
"Congo played a big part in the second industrial revolution by
supplying Europe with rubber," he said. "Congo was the place where
rubber was collected."
Congo was the largest supplier of rubber at that time. European
soldiers would come into Congo villages and demand villagers go into
the forest and collect rubber or the soldiers would "sever their
hands," Gondola said.
Congo is known for its many other minerals as well: copper, gold,
manganese, cobalt, uranium and coltan.
Uranium was discovered in Shinkolobwe in 1922. Union Miniere, a
Belgian company, supplied the United States with 1,200 tons of uranium
to construct the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima.
"The impression that we have as Congolese people is that every time a
new mineral is discovered, it is likely to be in Congo," he said, "and
not just anywhere in Congo but in the eastern parts."
Coltan is a widely used mineral found in Congo, which is now part of
the "digital revolution," Gondola said.
He then asked the audience, "What is the digital revolution?"
When no one answered, he said coltan is used in tablets, cellphones,
computers and airbags. Gondola pointed to students in the back using
their phones.
"You have coltan in your cellphones," he said.
Most of the audience members turned around to see whom he was talking
about and laughed.
"Well, you do," he said. "This is why Congo matters."
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