Abstract

Studying the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo using a grounded approach, Anuarite Bashizi, Cécile Giraud and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka adopt a Marxian and ecopolitical analytical framework in order to consider the interconnexions between ecological deterioration and primary resources, post-colonial politics and international financial institutions, class struggle and the international division of labour. In emphasizing the systematic race relations that structure the exploitation of the racialized work force as well as the access to natural resources, and underlining the heritage of colonialism in the form of “global coloniality”, the authors argue that a decolonial approach to political ecology and to Marxist capitalist analysis is necessary in order to apprehend the realities of exploitation in Africa.