By Cesar Chelala
October 14, 2018 "Information Clearing House" - While traveling in Africa in the ’80s and ’90s, I was surprised to see Chinese crews building roads, schools and houses. Although at the time this meant little to me, I later realized it was part of a policy of Chinese insertion into the African countries’ economies.
Historically, the African continent has been plundered by foreign powers, mainly but not exclusively European, who have extracted valuable resources, corrupting African elites, and destroying feeble attempts at democracy throughout the continent. On Jan. 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. He was the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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