Congolese Women and the Coltan Mines: Pain in the World

This is an article which speaks of the pain of the women who live in a land that, prior to the twentieth century, was rich and green. In the act and duration of writing this text, I have sought to mitigate the suffering of our African sisters. Because I believe that to accompany those suffering, with love, is of the symbolic order of the mother par excellence. The Congolese women opt for life in spite of the danger involved in living near land where minerals are extracted for mobile telephones and suffering from sexual harassment and rape. This piece has also wanted to explain something of the companies’ strategy and the global/local relationship of the unlimited exploitations of a neoliberal economy.