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Mobutu Sese Seko's Biography

Mobutu Sésé Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga (14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), commonly known as Mobutu or Mobutu Sésé Seko (pronounced /məˈbuːtuː ˈsɛseɪ ˈsɛkoʊ/ in English), born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, became the President of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) after deposing Joseph Kasavubu. He remained in office for 31.5 years. While in office, he formed a totalitarian regime in Zaire which attempted to purge the country of all colonial cultural influence and entered wars to challenge the rise of communism in other African countries. His mismanagement of his country's economy, and personal enrichment from its financial and natural resources, makes his name synonymous with kleptocracy in Africa.

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  • News Source: The Guardian | 15 days ago
    Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce...Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them together Philip Gourevitch When I
  • News Source: News 24 | 17 days ago
    The promise of democracy heralded by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War was only comparable with the euphoria of the independence movements in Africa in the 1960s and Nelson Mandela's release from incarceration in 1990. People
  • News Source: All Africa | 19 days ago
    No Substitute for Dialogue, Says Kabila Sydney Kawadza 4 November 2009 Mutare — DRC President Joseph Kabila has challenged Africa to follow his country's example by actively seeking dialogue and pursuing national reconciliation as a means of

Mobutu Sese Seko Blogs

  • Blog Source: www.monitor.co.ug | 14 days ago
    Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu waza Banga. Officially translated as: The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake. So you get the idea. ...
  • Blog Source: africanpress.wordpress.com | 14 days ago
    The man, who earlier in his career, was popularly known as Pascal Rochereau Ley Siegneur until political strongman Mobutu Sese Seko's cultural revolution in the 1970s, and simply became Tabu Ley, is going through the most difficult ...
  • Blog Source: www.mrdestructo.com | 14 days ago
    The official blog of notorious former African dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Thursday, November 5, 2009 ..... Contributors. Marty Peretz · Flavor Flav · Kim Jong-Il · Mobutu Sese Seko · Alan Greenspan. Blog Archive. ▼ 2009 (144) ...

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