Season 3: Episode 4: The end of the First Republic

thehistoryofthecongo

In this episode we see the final throes of the Independent Katanga and Kasai regions. But Katanga in particular does not go down without a very real fight. It holds the line against the United Nations no less, which increasingly adopts a more aggresive position to enforce a united Repulic of the Congo.

But after years of conflict and unrest people's dissapointment independence presnts opportunities for new position. Former enemies must become friends in the face of more threatening opponents. After years of fighting an exhausted international community leaves the Congo to it's fate.

In the dynamic politics of the region, Communism is still looking for a foothold and in our final extended episode of the season we see which superpower and ideology puts their man at the top for the next tumultuous chapter of The History of the Congo.

This part of history is a story not often told but sets the scene as we enter the modern world ....