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List Of People From The Republic Of The Congo
This is a list of Republic of Congo, Congolese people. *Kevin Andzouana, footballer *Hilaire Babassana *Fidèle Dimou * Junior Etou (born 1994), basketball player *Alphonse Gondzia *Serge Ibaka, basketball player *Ernest Kombo *Bill Kouélany *Jean-Pierre Lékoba *Alphonse Massemba-Débat *Justin Ballay Mégot *Émile Mokoko Wongolo *Jean-Marie Mokoko *Isidore Mvouba *Niasony *Marien Ngouabi *Denis Sassou Nguesso *Dominique Ntsiété *Émilienne Raoul *Sony Lab'ou Tansi *Patrice Yengo *Fulbert Youlou See also *List of Republic of the Congo writers *List of people by nationality References {{unreferenced, date=September 2014 Lists of Republic of the Congo people, Lists of people by location, Congo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, RepublÃki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo river. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to its northwest by Cameroon and its northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to its south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda and to its southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. It was a Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1992, under the name People's Republic of the Congo. The country has had multi-party elections since 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Mokoko
Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko (born 19 March 1947) is a Congolese general and politician. He served as Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the Congo and was advisor to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso. He was a candidate for the presidential election of March 2016, where he won 13.74% of the vote and came third out of nine candidates. He did not recognize the re-election of Denis Sassou Nguesso, who had been in power for more than 35 years, and called for civil disobedience. He was arrested in June 2016 and sentenced on 11 May 2018 to 20 years in prison for "endangering the internal security of the state". Early years Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko was born on 19 March 1947 in Mossaka, Cuvette province, Republic of the Congo. He attended the General Leclerc Military Preparatory School in Brazzaville. He then prepared for the entrance examination to the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and to the preparatory classes for Saint-Cyr at the Lycée Dumont d'Urv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People By Nationality
This is a list of notable persons by nationality. By nationality Delineating notable nationals of nation-states, and their significant dependent territories. * Afghans * Albanians * Algerians *Americans * Andorrans * Angolans * Antiguans and Barbudans *Argentines *Armenians * Arubans *Australians *Austrians * Azerbaijanis *Bahamians * Bahrainis *Bangladeshis *Barbadians * Basques * Belarusians *Belgians *Belizeans *Beninese * Bermudians * Bhutanese *Bolivians * Bosniaks * Bosnians and Herzegovinians *Botswana * Brazilians *Bretons *British * British Virgin Islanders * Bruneians *Bulgarians **Macedonian Bulgarians * Burkinabés * Burmese * Burundians *Cambodians * Cameroonians *Canadians *Catalans *Cape Verdeans * List of Caymanians * Chaldeans *Chadians *Chileans *Chinese *Colombians * Comorians * Congolese (DRC) * Congolese (RotC) *Costa Ricans *Croats *Cubans * Cypriots *Czechs * Danes **Greenlanders *Djiboutians * Dominicans (Commonwealth) * Dominicans (Republic) *Dutch *East T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Republic Of The Congo Writers
This is a list of Republic of the Congo writers. * André-Patient Bokiba, academic * Adèle Caby-Livannah (1957– ) * Emmanuel Dongala (1941– ) * Mambou Aimée Gnali (1935– ) *Bill Kouélany (1965– ) * Sony Lab'ou Tansi (1947–1995), born in Congo-Kinshasa * Henri Lopes (1937– ), born in Congo-Kinshasa * Alain Mabanckou (1966– ) * Jadelin Mabiala Gangbo (1976– ) * Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou (1929–2012) * Martial Malinda, also known as Sylvain Bemba / Michel Belabin (1934–1995) * Jean Malonga (1907–1985) * Lassy Mbouity (1988– ) * Guy Menga (1935– ) * Florence Lina Mouissou (1972– ), novelist aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au, The University of Western Australia. Archived 11 May 2013. * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulbert Youlou
Abbé Fulbert Youlou (29 June,In ''African Powder Keg: Revolt and Dissent in Six Emergent Nations'', author Ronald Matthews lists Youlou's date of birth as 9 June 1917. This date is also listed in ''Annuaire parlementaire des États d'Afrique noire, Députés et conseillers économiques des républiques d'expression française'' (1962). ; 17 JuneIn ''Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience'', Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. Anthony Appiah list Youlou's date of birth as 17 June 1917. or 19 July 1917The ''Encyclopedia of World Biography'' by Gale Research Company lists Youlou's date of birth as 19 July 1917. – 6 May 1972) was a laicized Brazzaville- Congolese Roman Catholic priest, nationalist leader and politician, who became the first President of the Republic of the Congo on its independence. In August 1960, he led his country into independence. In December 1960 he organised an intercontinental conference in Brazzaville, in the course of wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Yengo
Patrice Yengo (born 1949) is a francophone Congolese political anthropologist living and teaching in Paris, France. He is a specialist of the Congolese Civil War (1993–2002), otherwise known as the Republic of the Congo Civil War. He is originally from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). He studied pharmacology in Kharkov in the Ukraine and in Paris, France. He has taught pharmacology in the School of Medicine at the University of Congo-Brazzaville Marien Ngouabi. Patrice Yengo later received a doctorate in Political Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), where he is currently an affiliate lecturer with the Center for African Studies (''Institut des mondes africains The Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) is a French academic mixed and interdisciplinary research unit for African studies, in which the national research organisation CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), three other French nation .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Lab'ou Tansi
Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 – 14 June 1995), born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet in French language. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the "New African Writing." His novel ''The Antipeople'' won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. In his later years, he ran a theatrical company in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo. Life and career The oldest of seven children, Tansi was born in the former Belgian Congo, in the village of Kimwaanza, just south of the city now known as Kinshasa in the modern day Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was initially educated in the local language, Kikongo, and only began speaking French at the age of twelve, when his family moved to Congo-Brazzaville, today known as the Republic of the Congo. He attended the École Normale Supérieure d'Afrique Centrale in Brazzaville where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émilienne Raoul
Emilienne Raoul (''née'' Matingou,Short biography at website of the Congolese Consulate in New Delhi. born 7 January 1945"Who's Who", ''Congo Brazzaville: Les hommes de pouvoir'', number 1, Africa Intelligence, 29 October 2002 .) is a Congolese politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Social Affairs from 2002 to 2016. She additionally served as Minister of Health from 2007 to 2009. Life and career Raoul was born in and has a background working in education at the |
Dominique Ntsiété
Dominique Ntsiété (25 January 1940 – 9 July 2012Parfait-Wilfried Douniama"Disparition : le Parlement rend un dernier hommage à Dominique Ntsiété" ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 21 July 2012 .) was a Congolese politician. A member of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he served in the Senate of Congo-Brazzaville from 2002 to 2012. Political career Ntsiété was born in Brazzaville in 1940 and joined the PCT in 1974. During the single-party regime of the PCT, Ntsiété was a member of the Revolutionary Court of Exception. He served for a time as Administrator-Mayor of Bacongo, a district of Brazzaville.Pascal-Azad Doko, "Dominique Ntsiété, président du comité P.c.t de Bacongo (Brazzaville) : «Nous exhortons les militants à préserver la paix et l’unité nationale»", ''La Semaine Africaine'', 28 September 2011 . Years later, in July 2002, Ntsiété was elected to the Senate as a PCT candidate in Brazzaville. As of 2003, he was Treasurer of the Collective of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Sassou Nguesso
Denis Sassou Nguesso (born 23 November 1943) is a Congolese politician and former military officer. He became president of the Republic of the Congo in 1997. He served a previous term as president from 1979 to 1992. During his first period as president, he headed the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) for 12 years. He introduced multiparty politics in 1990, but was stripped of executive powers by the 1991 National Conference, remaining in office as a ceremonial head of state. He stood as a candidate in the 1992 presidential election but placed third. Sassou Nguesso was an opposition leader for five years before returning to power during the Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, in which his rebel forces ousted President Pascal Lissouba. Following a transitional period, he won the 2002 presidential election, which involved low opposition participation. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election. The introduction of a new constitution, passed by referendum in 2015 amid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marien Ngouabi
Marien Ngouabi (or N'Gouabi) (December 31, 1938 – March 18, 1977) was the third President of the Republic of the Congo from January 1, 1969, to March 18, 1977. Biography Origins Marien Ngouabi was born in 1938 at the village of Ombellé, Cuvette Department, in Kouyou territory to Dominique Osséré m'Opoma and Antoinette Mboualé-Abemba. His family was of humble origin. From 1947 to 1953, he went to primary school in Owando. On 14 September 1953, he went to study at the ''Ecole des enfants de troupes Général Leclerc'' in Brazzaville and in 1957, he was sent to Bouar, Oubangui-Chari (now the Central African Republic). After serving in Cameroon as a member of the second battalion of the tirailleurs with the rank of Sergeant (1958–1960), Ngouabi went to the ''Ecole Militaire Préparatoire'' in Strasbourg, France in September 1960 and then to the ''Ecole Inter-armes'' at Coëtquidan Saint-Cyr in 1961. He returned to Congo in 1962 as Second Lieutenant and was stationed at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niasony
Niasony Okomo (born Alexandrine Severine Niasony Okomo; 1973) is a Congolese singer, model, and dancer born in Republic of the Congo. Known for her smooth voice and message-based music, she currently lives and works in Germany. She was born in Brazzaville in 1973 to Michael Okomo and Charlotte Nkounkolo and moved to Heiligenhaus, Germany, near Düsseldorf, in 1987. She has spoken of the culture shock she experienced with this move, finding a contrast between the bustle of Brazzaville and the small-town, often empty, streets of Heiligenhaus. As a teenager Niasony worked as a model, dancer and performance artist for various projects. In 2013, Niasony was honored by the African Youth Foundation with an ADLER award for being an ambassador for African culture. Niasony lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Music Niasony performs a style of world music in the genres of Soukous, Afro, Reggae and Afrobeat. Thematically, Niasony combines the sounds of dance music with serious topics of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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