In the bizarre, rebellion-plagued history of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the “profiteers of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Salter works as an independent consultant in the Great Lakes Region. The “Indépendance Cha-Cha” is one of the best-known songs in the Congolese cannon. It was composed and first performed by ...