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Guerrilla History

Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley (AR&D Ep.10)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you another fascinating episode in our series African Revolutions and Decolonization.  This time, a big episode on mining in Congo - extraction, exploitation, environmental and economic impacts, as well as the history, regional variations, and the difference between industrial mining and artisanal mining in Congo.  For this, we are lucky to be joined by Ben Radley as a guest host, and two excellent guests from the Congo -   Josaphat Musamba and Germain Ngoie Tshibambe.  Given their academic work on this, plus Josaphat's actual experience as a miner himself, we could not ask for a better group to unpack this!  Share widely to help others understand this remarkably pivotal industry.  Also be sure to check out our two previous episodes from the series on the Congo (The First, and The Second).  Lastly, check out the Centre of Expertise on Mining Governance.
 
Josaphat Musamba is a Congolese researcher, and is a Ph.D. student at Ghent University. Check out Josaphat's twitter @MusambaJosaphat and his ResearchGate profile.
 
Germain Ngoie Tshibambe is a full professor at the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he teaches international relations and is the Head Advisor of the Rector's Cabinet. Check out his Academia page and ResearchGate profile.
 
Ben Radley is is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath, is author of Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus, and is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). Follow him on twitter @RadleyBen and check out his website.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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You didn't remember Den Van Boo?

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No!

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The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:14.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

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The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.

0:22.9

But they put some guerrilla action on.

0:36.4

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history

0:38.6

to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, unfortunately not joined

0:44.0

by my other usual co-host, who of course is Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the

0:49.5

School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. I am fortunate to be joined by a terrific guest host today,

0:57.6

but before I introduce our guest host and kind of let you know how this episode was recorded

1:02.6

because it is a rather convoluted process,

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I would like to first let you know listeners that you can help support the show

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that GorillaHistory.substack.com and just note that Gorilla has two R's. I should also make one final note before I introduce Ben, my guest host for this episode,

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that the Gorilla History YouTube channel has recently been launched.

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