吗 now there are hundreds and the message gets out and much more attention is focused
on that issue of human rights conflict in the IC so I absolutely do think there's progress
and things are better than they were ten years ago for sure.
Why do we do recognizing that
Africa's idea of solutions comes from Africans I think, and I think as soon as we
As we, in the developed world, realise that we shouldn't be profiting from other people's weakness, then there will be progress.
The only problem is that in between fair play and a process of profitability that can be redirected to the people in Africa for their own benefit,
you have a lot of corrupt leaders and a lot of corrupt multinational companies that are trying to benefit from the resources and the industries that are available in Africa.
So we have to be very diligent about putting pressure on organisations and also the governments that are ruling inside some countries inside the continent in Africa.
Some are very, very good, but others definitely need a little bit of edging towards better practice.
I think the world's superpowers over the years have changed and I'm not isolating superpowers.
I say globally, everyone internationally has a responsibility for what's going on in places like DRC.
You have a responsibility for what goes on in DRC because you're a consumer and the products that you buy require tin from eastern Congo.
When you buy a computer, the solder that's inside that computer, 5% of it could come from Congo.
So you're part of the problem and the whole idea is that let's not blame superpowers here.
Let's look at how we are all implicit in the exploitation of countries like DRC and DRC is definitely not the only one.
I think more information, more awareness, more understanding of what's going on and how that camera over there has products in it that could probably be sourced from DRC.
Your farm has products that definitely were sourced from DRC.
So we're all guilty really.
So we all have to change our working practices and also increase our understanding and then put pressure on governments, our own governments to try to make sure that they change their relationships with organisations and with countries that are not really well practiced in the way that they practice human rights.
Well in communities are the governments that don't want you to document what you're documenting and also the remoteness sometimes that it's very difficult to show that there's a conflict when it's very difficult to access that conflict.
Congo is well known for there being a war but it's very rare that people actually see that war.
And so it's very difficult to show you, the viewer, that this war is happening. What I do therefore is try to show the viewer the effects of that conflict on population and sometimes that's even more powerful.
Is it because you're getting paid? Is it because you're receiving some form of benefits from America? You have to ask yourself whether the motivations for doing something like that specifically, what are the main motivations?
Why are you doing it? And if you can honestly say that you're doing it for the benefit of humankind then it's fine. But if you're doing it to make money then you should really question the motivation behind it.
And so should the citizens of your country and start to question the government's motivation for doing it. I don't know very much about that situation and the reasons behind it so you guys should ask the right questions I think, not me.
