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A 7 page paper discussing an overview of Zaire, its history and social background and recent political developments. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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of severe humanitarian and economic oppression. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the latest name given to a large region of central Africa. The area of the country
is approximately 900,000 square miles and it is part of the Congo River drainage basin (Mbendi / cyzrci.htm). It is bordered by the Central African Republic and Sudan on
the north; by Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania to the east; by Zambia to the southeast; and by Angola to the southwest and west (Columbia, 1993). The Democratic Republic
of the Congo is divided into ten districts, Bandudu, Bas-Zaire, Equator, Haute-Zaire, Kasai-Occidental, Kasai-Oriental, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, and Shaba, with the capital city of Kinshasa composing the federal district (Columbia,
1993). Approximately three-quarters of the people are engaged in subsistence farming and other agricultural pursuits. The country also has rich mineral deposits,
located mostly in the Shaba region, of diamonds, copper, cobalt, zinc, tin, coal, gold, and silver (Sahnoun 58). Over ten percent of the countrys exports consist of diamonds (Mbendi
/ cyzrci.htm). This paper was sold by , Inc. The Pygmies were probably the first inhabitants of the region, but by approximately 100 B.C., the Bantu took
up residence there, coming in from the northwest (present-day Nigeria and Cameroon) (Columbia 1993). Around 700 A.D., they began working the copper deposits (Columbia 1993). In 1482, the
Portuguese established trade with the Bantu, marking the beginning of European and ultimately American influence upon the region (Mbendi / cyzrci.htm). In 1885, King Leopold II of Belgium, believing that
Belgium needed colonies in order to ensure its prosperity, privately founded the Congo Free State (Mbendi / cyzrci.htm). He hired Henry M. Stanley to establish his authority in the
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