The beginning of an era began in 1890 with George Washington Williams "an open letter to his serene majesty Leopold ll". The letter began an era because it announced the fall of the Belgian empire in 1890 simply stating " do not weep for me my companion; I know that my country , now suffering so much, ' will be Abel to defend its independence and its freedom. Long live the Congo ! Long live Africa !" The second act in this story occurs in 1955, 65 years later. With the congolese TV from Kinshasa in French. This news report states "I salute the leaders of Angola and the democratic republic of Congo". The third piece of the puzzle was Patrice lumimba's Independence Day speech on June 30th 1960. Simply declaring independence for the democratic republic of Congo saying "victorious fighters for independence, today victorious" marking the end of a long hard fought battle were the people of Congo proved to be victorious. The fourth event in this long struggle was the speeches and writings of Patrice lumimba which in my opinion was made to prove the faults in the government because it had statements such as " your majesty's government is deficient". The next 4 stages in the puzzle all occurs in 1970 with a common relationship of Nixon. I believe that all of those writings are connected because all of them starting with a address to people and the addresses are all have similar people to whom there addressed to and they all have the common topic of democratic republic of Congo. The last piece of the puzzle occurred July 16 1999 which was about the death of mzee Laurent-Desire saying " tragic circumstances have lead tho the unexpected death of the president of the republic" I think that this marked the end of an era for the democratic republic of Congo.
I believe that all these articles relate because they all have the common purpose of explaining the history of the democratic republic of Congo. I think that the history behind Congo is similar to ours because they fought for there independence and they had help along the way like America receiving help from France while fighting the British as Congo did from other places.
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