Diggers and Merchants: A Congolese copper digger

Diggers and Merchants: A Congolese copper digger | Africa Direct

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Diggers and Merchants, by filmmaker Nelson Makengo, immerses us in a life of exhausting physical labour and brutal conditions.
Josué Mukeba has worked in the copper quarries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for years. Now he wants a stake in the new order. Faced with a new mining code that requires contractors to be Congolese nationals, he stands up for himself and the other diggers. They do not see themselves as victims; they just want a fair chance and some respect.
Nelson Makengo is a Congolese director, visual artist and producer based in Kinshasa. His short films have won many leading international awards and have been screened worldwide, including at IDFA and Sundance. He recently won the bronze award for his short film Nuit Debout (Up at Night) at FESPACO. He is a Sundance Documentary Film Institute grantee.
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@alfredlear4141 2 жыл бұрын

I love this style of documentary. Very well paced and excellent exposition.

@vonexmobile9116 2 жыл бұрын

Congolese are good and hard workers people...

@MrJohhnycongo 4 ай бұрын

Good slaves to be exploited, you mean?

@tuforu4 2 жыл бұрын

But show us the PROFIT MAKERS.

@rowlandnkweyagae5303 Жыл бұрын

Aljazeera has the best documentaries

@humpbacksquarepants5580 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Congo 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

@adolfmudau9956 2 жыл бұрын

they keep on making this kinda videos but no solution iam not happy at all

@BirdboyEnt 2 жыл бұрын

Next episode take us to the factories

@christellekankolongo8266 2 жыл бұрын

Félicitations à tous ceux qui ont concouru à la réalisation de ce docu-fiction qui réverbère les réalités inouïes de la vie de creuseurs (diggers) à la lumière du nouveau code minier. Bravo au réalisateur (Nelson Makengo), au producteur (Moimi Wezam), aux acteurs, figurants et aussi à celui qui a écrit le script (Sinzo Aanza).

@gavinkandombo7785 Жыл бұрын

Are there any large scale fish traders/wholesalers to connect with in DRC Congo or Zambia

@MrJohhnycongo 4 ай бұрын

I know from village outreach work in eastern DR Congo that it is very hard to live in an exploited country such as the DRC. All the world wants the 8 critical but "cheap" Conflict Minerals! At the cost of the people whose land and country it is. God and the Gospel of Peace were killed, imprisoned or driven out of the eastern DRC under King Leopoldt already. The UN kept true peace away, too. Good News never to have returned since.

@bradd188 3 ай бұрын

Kolwezi? I’ve heard that word before somewhere 0:36

@BirdboyEnt 2 жыл бұрын

Kiswahili kitukuzwe

@michellemartin2330 2 жыл бұрын

So what was the solution?? The Chinese guy didn't show up to the meeting.

@Nomeuno10 10 ай бұрын

unlike the black people in the united states. these african people are humble

@janelljones4029 6 ай бұрын

They slaves, the African so called American is a modern slave living close to the slavers and reaping benefits from them. The Slaver is the greedy theft who is not humble. Face reality! Tell the truth!😮