This dossier was collaboratively produced by the Centre Culturel Andrée Blouin, the Centre for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa (CERECK), Likambo Ya Mabele (Land Sovereignty Movement), and ...

Released from a Congo jail three weeks ago to lead his Congolese National Movement delegation at Brussels, he arrived proudly showing wrists bandaged from wearing tight handcuffs. Kasavubu’s ...

The US ruling class perceived him and any Congolese National Movement political victory as a destabilizing force. Naturally, US intelligence pretended to be concerned with the welfare of the so ...

including taking part in the first municipal election of 1957 – in which he voted for Lumumba’s Congolese National Movement (MNC) party “because I was convinced it had a great vision for our ...

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, who is accused of supporting rebels, has met with top religious leaders in the rebel-controled city of Goma ...

Lumumba is widely hailed as the nationalist activist who helped to end colonial rule. He became Congo’s first prime ... in putting down a secessionist movement in the mineral-rich Katanga ...

He was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he played a significant role in the ...