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In 1906 a Belgian mining company was handed 7,700 square miles of the Congo. When the Congo became independent in 1960, the province sitting on the copper declared itself a separate country eleven days later, with an army, an air force, and a mining company paying for both. The flag changed in 1960. The mine did not change hands until 1966. This is the financial history of the Katanga secession: who armed it, who banked it, and why the copper mattered more than the country did. 📄 Every claim here is drawn from a named source, including verbatim Hansard. They are listed below. 🗂 Subscribe for the ledger side of empire: who owned what, who paid, and for how long. ⚖️ Worth arguing about: was Katanga a secession, or a company protecting an asset? CHAPTERS 0:00 A company is handed a country 1:03 Independence, and eleven days later 1:39 The mining company arms a state 2:38 The central bank sits down 3:34 Why Katanga: the copper 3:50 The Cold War arrives 4:19 Britain argues about peacekeepers 5:52 The secession collapses 6:46 The harder version of the story 7:24 The company outlived the country 7:59 What came after 9:50 The copper is still moving SOURCES Hansard, HC Deb 14 December 1961: The Congo Hansard, HC Deb 5 February 1962: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hansard, HL Deb 28 March 1962: The International Situation Hansard, 6 February 1963: The International Situation "The Involvement of the Belgian Central Bank in the Katanga Secession, 1960-1963" (African Economic History) "The Nationalization of Zaire's Copper: From Union Miniere to Gecamines" (Africa Today) "Rethinking the Katangese Secession" (Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History) "State failure in the Congo: perceptions and realities" (Review of African Political Economy) "Americanizing Africanization: the Congo crisis, 1960-1967" Full citations with direct links are in the pinned comment. Every figure, date and quotation is checked against a source before the script is recorded. The images are generated: no photographs exist of most of what is described, and no real person is depicted. Corrections are welcome and will be pinned. #CongoCrisis #Katanga #Congo #UnionMiniere #DRC #Lumumba #ColdWar #Belgium #Copper #Mining #Secession #Africa #AfricanHistory #Colonialism #Decolonization #UnitedNations #Geopolitics #HiddenHistory #Documentary #History #FinancialHistory #EconomicHistory

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