Zaire’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, has long viewed his resource-rich African country as little more than a personal plantation, to be plundered, oppressed and consigned to misery. So while ...
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Half a century ago, the “Rumble in the Jungle” became not just a fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, but a cultural touchstone. By John Eligon Reporting from Johannesburg The African nation ...
Reuben Loffman receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the British Academy (BA). The Democratic Republic of Congo ...
The mob was organized by President Joseph Mobutu’s Mouvement Populaire Revolutionnaire, the only legal political party in the Congo. Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, it began to work up quite ...
Duke covered southern Africa as Johannesburg bureau chief for The Washington Post from 1995 to 1999. Her engaging memoir provides a close-up look at the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in the former Zaire, ...
In many ways, Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle didn’t start on this day 50 years ago at 4:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. ET). Nor did it start seven weeks prior when the ...
Megalomania, extravagant spending, collaboration with the CIA… After the death of the former president of Zaire, Philippe Gaillard retraces his career for us. With implacable lucidity. Fallen from ...
During the cold war, Mobutu had the support, both militarilly and financially, of the Western world. He was an element in the fight against communism, and found in that support an external base for ...
The murder of Patrice Lumumba in January 1961 turned him into one of the most famous political martyrs of the 20th century. His country, the Congo, sat astride the belly of a continent and had seen ...
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