Congo and Africa's World War: Crash Course World History 221
In which John Green teaches you about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which used to be Zaire, which used to be The Belgian Congo, which used to be the Congo Free State, which used to...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today were going to talk about the Congo. Mr. Green! Mr.Green! We're gonna to talk about the Conga? No, Me From the Past, you idiot, that is a dance. However, your epic, epic ignorance does indicate that perhaps we don't do a particularly good job when it comes to talking about African history in world history classes. So today we're gonna look at what happened to the Congo after decolonization but in particular what happened during the 1990s and early 2000s as Congo, or Zaire, or the Democratic Republic of Congo was embroiled in what some people have called Africa's World War. European colonization in Africa was generally pretty, you know, bad. But it was particularly terrible in...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today were going to talk about the Congo. Mr. Green! Mr.Green! We're gonna to talk about the Conga? No, Me From the Past, you idiot, that is a dance. However, your epic, epic ignorance does indicate that perhaps we don't do a particularly good job when it comes to talking about African history in world history classes. So today we're gonna look at what happened to the Congo after decolonization but in particular what happened during the 1990s and early 2000s as Congo, or Zaire, or the Democratic Republic of Congo was embroiled in what some people have called Africa's World War. European colonization in Africa was generally pretty, you know, bad. But it was particularly terrible in...
