Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire’s president for the last 27 years, is so hated by his people that he hardly ever dares set foot in his own capital. So the scene outside parliament earlier this month, ...

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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 ...

For the first time in ten months, the Congo’s fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University’s handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified ...

When Mobutu Sese Seko took over the Congo (which he later renamed Zaire) in 1965, he inherited about 5,000 miles of paved roads left by the heinous Belgian colonists. When he fled the country in the ...

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, ...