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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

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by Michela Wrong


  police

  Janssen, Pierre

  Japan, and Rwanda

  Jaycox, Kim

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Kabila, Laurent

  appearance

  compared with M

  Gbadolite seized

  and King Mizele

  a Maoist with keen commercial instincts

  and the massacre of Hutu refugees

  meeting with M (4 May 1997)

  and the Ndombolo

  and a new Congolese army

  rechristens Congolese names

  style of leadership

  welcomed in Lubumbashi

  Kabila administration

  Kalonji, Albert

  Kamanyola

  Kamitatu, Cléophas

  Kamoto mine

  Kanshi river

  Kasai

  empire

  Kasavubu, President Joseph

  and Lumumba

  M neutralises

  requests protection from the UN

  sacks Tshombe

  Katanga (Shaba)

  Kaunda, Kenneth

  Kawele

  Kengo Wa Dondo, Léon

  Kennedy, John F.

  Khanafer, Harif

  Khanafer, Naim

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kigali

  Kigali airport

  Kimbangu, Simon

  Kimbanguist Church

  Kinshasa

  abortive coup attempt (1999)

  AFDL advances on

  and Brazzaville

  central bank

  cut off from mineral resources

  described

  dubbed ‘Kosovo’

  and electrical power

  French embassy

  Gombe district

  HIV in

  and the Kongo Kingdom

  M returns to (1996)

  mercenaries in

  Moslem community

  and M’s downfall

  M’s residences

  music

  new currency (1993)

  nuclear reactor

  riots and pillaging (1993)

  survival in

  US embassy

  see also Leopoldville

  Kinshasa General Hospital see Mama Yemo hospital

  Kisangani

  see also Stanleyville

  Kivu, Lake

  Kivu province

  Kolwezi

  Kongo kingdom

  Ladawa, Bobi (Mobutu’s wife)

  Ladawa, Kossia

  Lemera, south Kivu

  Leopold II, King

  his aim

  bribery

  divides the Congo into concessions

  hands over the Congo to Belgium (1908)

  motivation

  profits from the Congo

  and slavery

  and Stanley

  Leopoldville

  see also Kinshasa

  Liberia

  Libya

  Likasi

  Likulia Bolongo, General

  Lingala (lingua franca of Congo)

  Lingala (music)

  Lisala

  Livingstone, David

  London

  Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)

  Lualaba River

  Luba tribe

  Lubumbashi

  and the AFDL

  massacre

  see also Elizabethville

  Lumumba, Patrice

  appoints M army chief of staff

  the Congo’s first prime minister

  in detention

  and Kasavubu

  M neutralises

  monument to

  the murder of

  and the National Congolese Movement

  personality

  requests protection from the UN

  and the Soviet Union

  Lwangi, Celestin

  Mabi Mulumba, Professor

  Maboti, Litho (M’s uncle)

  Machiavelli, Niccolò

  The Prince

  McNamara, Robert

  Mahele, General Donat Lieko

  Makala, Kinshasa

  Makala jail, Kinshasa

  Malebo pool

  Malu Wa Kalenga, Professor Felix

  Maluku

  Mama Yemo hospital, Kinshasa

  Mandela, Nelson

  Manhattan Project

  ManiKongo tribe

  Marchal, Jules

  Marcos, Ferdinand

  Masisi region, north Kivu

  Mavua Mudima, Admiral

  Mbandaka

  Mbuji Mayi

  Mende, Lambert

  MIBA see Société Minière du Bakwanga

  Les Miguettes, Savigny

  Milosevic, Slobodan

  Ministry of Information

  Ministry of Justice

  Ministry of Planning

  Mitterrand, François

  Mizele, King (Bernard Mizele Nsemi)

  Mobutu, Bobi (née Ladawa; M’s second wife)

  Mobutu, Konga (M’s son)

  Mobutu, Kongulu (M’s son)

  flees

  gambling

  and Mahele’s murder

  searches for traitors

  and Yoshad

  death

  Mobutu, Marie Antoinette (M’s first wife)

  Mobutu, Ngawali (M’s daughter)

  Mobutu, Niwa (M’s son)

  Mobutu, Nzanga (M’s son)

  Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (formerly Joseph Désiré Mobutu)

  ambition

  appearance

  army chief of staff

  and army riots

  on Article

  asked to resign

  assets

  birth

  childhood

  CIA supports

  compared with Kabila

  demonised

  Devlin meets

  education

  in exile

  extravagance

  in the Force Publique

  health

  introduces Zaireanisation

  joins the National Congolese Movement

  journalism

  and Kimbangu

  and Leopold II

  Lumumba’s murder

  Lumumba’s personal aide

  marries Marie Antoinette

  meeting with Kabila (4 May 1997)

  overthrown (May 1997)

  ‘peaceful revolution’

  personality

  personality cult

  seizes control of Congo (September 1960)

  sources of wealth

  as a speaker

  stirs up tribal hatreds for political gain

  takes over after civil war

  on theft

  withdrawal to Gbadolite

  death (8 September 1997)

  tomb

  Mobutu, Yakpwa (M’s daughter; later Janssen)

  Monaco

  Mondjolomba, Eketebi

  Monheim, Francis

  Morel, Edmund

  Morocco/Moroccans

  Morris, Roger

  mouvanciers

  Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution (MPR)

  Mukamba, Jonas

  Mulele, Pierre

  Mulemba, Jean-Baptiste

  Nagasaki

  Nanga, Mawampanga Mwana

  National Congolese Movement

  Ndaywel e Nziem, Professor Isidore

  Ndjili airport

  negritude

  Ngaliema, Mount

  Ngbanda Nzambo Ko Atumba, Honoré (‘the Terminator’)

  Ngbandi language

  Ngbandi tribes

  Ngobila Beach

  Ngobila Beach Handicapped Mutual Benefit Society

  Nguz Karl i Bond

  Niarkos (Kinshasa mobster)

  Nile River

  Nixon, Richard

  N’kamba

  Nkrumah, Kwame

  Nsele

  Nyerere, Julius

  Nzimbi Ngbale, General (M’s cousin)

  Office of Ill-Gotten Gains (OBMA)<
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  Olomide, Koffi

  Oppenheimer, Robert

  Orwell, George

  Animal Farm

  The Road to Wigan Pier

  Outeniqua, SAS

  pan-Africanism

  Paris

  Philippines

  Pinochet, General Augusto

  Pocock, Frank

  Pointe Noire

  Popular People’s Committees (CPP)

  Portugal/Portuguese

  Prester John

  Rabat

  radicalisation

  Reagan, Ronald

  Rema, Bisengimana

  Rhodesian mercenaries

  Richardson, Bill

  Rochereau, Tabu Ley

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Brussels

  Royal Palace, Laeken

  RPF see Rwandese Patriotic Front

  Rwanda

  death of Habyarimana

  and France

  genocide of 1994

  Kabila’s new Congolese army

  refugees

  Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF)

  Sakombi Inongo

  Saolona, Bemba

  ‘Sape, La’/sapeurs

  SARM

  Savigny, Switzerland

  Savimbi, Jonas

  Savorgnan de Brazza, Count Pierre

  Schramme, Jean

  Senghor, Leopold

  Service Nationale d’Intelligence et de Protection (SNIP)

  Shaba see Katanga

  Shinkolobwe mines, Katanga

  Shultz, George

  Sierra Leone

  Simpson, Daniel

  Smalto, Francesco

  Societé Minière du Bakwanga (MIBA)

  Society of Ambiences and Persons of Elegance see Sape, La

  South Africa

  mercenaries

  Truth Commission

  South Korea

  Sovereign National Conference (CNS)

  Soviet Union

  activity in Brussels

  diplomats ejected from the Congo

  military aid to the Congo

  perestroika

  plans for global communist expansion

  Sozacom

  Speke, John

  Stanley, Henry Morton

  The Congo and the founding of its free state

  Through the Dark Continent

  Stanleyville

  see also Kisangani

  Stengers, Professor Jean

  Stockwell, John

  Switzerland

  Tanzania

  Telecel

  Templesman, Maurice

  Tindemanns, Leo

  Togo

  Tokyo, Zairean embassy

  Toure, Sekou

  Training and Research Reactor for Isotope Production General Atomic (TRIGA)

  Tshisekedi, Etienne

  Tshisekedi province

  Tshombe, Moïse Kapenda

  recruits ‘les affreux’

  Tutsis

  Ubangi river

  Uganda

  Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK)

  Union of Social and Political Democracy

  UNITA (Uniao Nacional para la Independencia Total de Angola)

  United Nations

  death of Hammarskjöld

  Lumumba alienates

  and rights of the handicapped

  sanctions

  Security Council

  troops land in Leopoldville

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

  United States

  and Angola

  distances itself from Congo

  fundamentalist sects

  intervention in Zaire

  Manhattan Project

  mercenaries

  Mobutu’s children in

  National Security Council

  Nguz testifies against M

  Senate Committee hearing

  and the Soviet Union

  State Department

  Treasury

  uranium deals

  and the Zairean army

  University of Kinshasa

  Uvira

  Victoria, Lake

  Villa del Mar, Roquebrune Cap Martin

  Virunga National Park

  Vundwawe Te Pemako, Professor

  Wapenhans, Willi

  Wemba, Papa

  Wolfensohn, James

  World Bank

  Yakoma tribe

  Yale, Seti

  Yemo, Marie Madeleine (M’s mother)

  Yezu, Kitenge

  Yoshad

  Zaire (1971-97)

  and Angola

  authenticity

  bureaucracy

  declared a multiparty state (1990)

  economy

  the flag

  government reshuffles

  inflation

  an international pariah

  M appropriates plantations

  M’s aims

  name changed to

  name eradicated

  the ‘owls’

  radicalisation

  rebel movement

  refugee crisis

  retreat of Zairean forces

  UNITA uses as rear base

  see also Belgian Congo; Congo (1960-71); Congo (1997-); Congo Free State

  Zaire river see Congo river

  Zairean army

  equipment

  holds Zaire hostage

  and Hutu extremists

  the Inseparable Four

  Kamanyola division

  looting

  M swears in his officers

  M’s role

  Ngbanda’s critique

  the power of the generals

  raison d’être

  recruitment

  retreat of

  riots

  series of defeats

  training

  tribalisation

  see also Congolese army

  Zaireanisation

  Zambia

  Zanzibar

  Ziegler, Jean

  Zimbabwe

  About the Author

  Michela Wrong spent six years in Africa as a foreign correspondent, covering events for Reuters, the BBC, and the Financial Times. She is now based in London.

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  IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR. KURTZ. Copyright © 2001 by Michela Wrong. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition © JANUARY 2007 ISBN: 9780061863615

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  Wrong, Michela.

  In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz : living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu’s Congo / Michela Wrong.—1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 0-06-018880-4

  10 9 8 7 6 5

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