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Siddharth Kara
Climate & Sustainability
Society & PoliticsWho is Siddharth Kara in the Agency editorial?
Siddharth Kara is an author and researcher on modern slavery, who wrote Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. Issue.24, the edition about cobalt mining, presents excerpts from that book with the author's comments and credits Kara for a video, a tweet and a picture.
In short
Siddharth Kara is an author and researcher on modern slavery, who wrote the book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. In the Agency editorial he appears only in Issue.24, six times. The edition credits him for a video of the Shabara mine, a tweet shown as an image and a picture from his X profile. The author introduces excerpts from Cobalt Red by saying Kara is the author "who first brought this theme to light", takes from him the area he reports for the cobalt region around the city of Kolwezi, and refers to his research when writing that slavery still happens in this decade.
Key facts
- Who is Siddharth Kara?
- An author and researcher on modern slavery. He wrote Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, about cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Siddharth Kara?
- Only in Issue.24, six times: in the caption of a video, in the author's prose that introduces the book, in the credit of a tweet, in a comparison of areas, in the credit of a picture and in a sentence about his research.
- How does Issue.24 use his book?
- The author announces excerpts with comments from Cobalt Red and places them under the headings of chapter 1 and chapter 3. He calls Kara the author "who first brought this theme to light".
Who is Siddharth Kara?
Siddharth Kara is an author and researcher on modern slavery. His book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, published in 2023, deals with cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The edition itself gives the title of the book and its publisher, St. Martin's Publishing Group; the year and the description of his work come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does Siddharth Kara appear in Issue.24?
Issue.24 credits three pieces of media to him: a video of the Shabara mine, which the caption says he shot and dates 5 January 2023; a tweet shown as an image, about an industrial mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and a picture published on his X profile.
In the author's prose, the edition announces excerpts with comments from the book Cobalt Red, by the author "who first brought this theme to light". Passages follow under the headings of chapter 1 and of chapter 3, the latter titled "Modern Slavery in the Mines". The author takes from Kara the measure of "a single patch of earth roughly four hundred by one hundred kilometres in size" as the area reported for the city of Kolwezi, and compares it with the areas of fossil fuel production. Further on he writes that, as reported in Kara's research, slavery is still a practice that happens up until this decade.
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