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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of enslavement and racism.
In Cobalt Red, Siddharth Kara compares the exploitative practices of the contemporary artisanal cobalt mining industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the nation’s colonial and post-colonial history. In Chapter 4, he describes this history in greater detail and how it connects to the present moment. However, it is helpful to keep the following timeline of Congolese history in mind throughout.
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