How Colonialism in the Congo Made Your iPhone
There is another way, but Elon Musk won't like it.
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Sources and Further Reading:
1. Most of the history: King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
2. The rest of the history: The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History
3. Migrant's rights info: https://migrantsrights.org.uk/2023/11...
4. The Republic article: https://republic.com.ng/october-novem...
5. Vogue article: https://www.vogue.com/article/democra...
6. Human Rights Watch on recent history: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/06/d...
7. Al Jazeera on the history of the DRC:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2...
8. Vice on DRC mining: • Cobalt Mining Is Still a Dangerous Job in ...
9. Cobalt footage from Periodic Videos: • Cobalt - Periodic Table of Videos
10. Chocolate hands in Belgium: • Belgium's Chocolate Of Severed Black Hands...
11. Rubber boom doc clip: • VISUAL PROOF OF THE BELGIAN GENOCIDE IN CONGO
12. JFK doc clip: • Video
13. Lumumba Speech: • Patrice Lumumba Independence Day Speech (J...
14. Leopold comes down: • Bust of King Leopold II removed from Belgi...