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
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
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)
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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Wrong, Michela.
In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz : living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu’s Congo / Michela Wrong.—1st U.S. ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-06-018880-4
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