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Léon Engulu
Léon Engulu, or Engulu Baangampongo Bakokele Lokanga (1 April 1934 – 4 February 2023) was a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was prominent in the politics of Équateur Province in the period leading up to and following independence in 1960, and was governor of various provinces between 1962 and 1970. From 1970 to 1997 he occupied various senior positions in the governments of president Mobutu Sese Seko. From 2003 to 2018 he was a senator. Early years Léon Engulu was born on 1 April 1934 in Coquilhatville (Mbandaka), in the province of Équateur, Belgian Congo. He was of Mongo ethnicity. He was the eldest of a family of three children. He began his professional career in 1954 under the Belgian Congo as a ''commis territorial'', which at the time corresponded to a minister today. On 8 March 1960, a provincial executive college was created in Coquilhatville (Équateur Province) composed of Laurent Eketebi, Sebastien Ikolo and Leon Engulu. Engulu partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuvette Centrale Province
Cuvette Centrale Province was a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1963 and 1966 during the Congo Crisis. Location Cuvette Centrale Province covered the area of the present provinces of Province of Équateur, Équateur and Tshuapa in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is named after the Cuvette Centrale (Central Basin), a geological basin covering an area of around to the north of Kinshasa. This is a region of swamps and dense tropical forest, with few roads and no railways. Under the law of 14 August 1962 Cuvette Centrale Province comprised the territories of Basankusu Territory, Basankusu, Bolomba Territory, Bolomba, Coq-Kalamba, Ingende Territory, Ingende and Bikoro Territory, Bikoro in Équateur District; Boende Territory, Boende, Befale Territory, Befale, Bokungo, Djolu Territory, Djolu, Ikela Territory, Ikela and Monkoto in Tshuapa District, and the Bongandanga sector in Bongandanga Territory. History Cuvette Centra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngombe People
Ngombe, or ''Lingombe'', is a Bantu language spoken by about 150,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In general, native speakers live on either side of the Congo River, and its many tributaries; more specifically, Équateur Province, Mongala District and in areas neighboring it (Sud Ubangi and Équateur districts). Ngombe is written in Latin script. The deities of the Ngombe include the supreme creator Akongo and the ancestor goddess Mbokomu. Ngombe includes several dialects in addition to Ngombe proper (Ŋgɔmbɛ). These are ''Wiindza-Baali'', ''Doko'' (Dɔkɔ), and ''Binja'' (also rendered ''Binza'', ''Libindja'', or ''Libinja''). The latter is not the same as the Binja/Binza language. Binja dialect is primarily spoken in Orientale Province and Aketi Territory Aketi Territory is a territory in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The administrative capital is located at Aketi. The territory borders Bondo Territory to the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Mukamba
Jonas Mukamba Kadiata Nzemba (born January 4, 1931) is a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and former CEO of the state-run diamond company. Between August 1965 and October 1968 he was governor in turn of South Kasai, Kasaï-Oriental, Équateur and Orientale Province. He was again governor of Équateur Province between 27 August 1980 and 19 March 1983. Biography MIBA Zaire's president Mobutu Sese Seko appointed Nzemba the chief executive officer of the state's main diamond mining company, the Societé minière de Bakwanga (MIBA) in 1986. Based in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, formerly Bakwanga, the company provided as much as 80 percent of the world's industrial diamonds, but other than mining operations which provided much-needed hard currency, the region was widely neglected by Mobutu and the central government. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Zaire and Mobutu paid little attention to Mbuji-Mayi, offering almost no money to build roads, schools or hospitals. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandundu Province
Bandundu is one of eleven former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It bordered the provinces of Kinshasa and Bas-Congo to the west, Équateur (former province), Équateur to the north, and Kasai-Occidental to the east. The provincial capital is also called Bandundu (city), Bandundu (formerly Banningstad/Banningville). History Bandundu was formed in 1966 by merging the three post-colonial political regions: Kwilu, Kwango, and Mai-Ndombe. Under the 2006 constitution, Bandundu was to be broken up again into the aforementioned political regions. This finally took place in the Subdivisions of the DR Congo#New provinces, 2015 repartitioning. Kwilu Province, Kwilu province was formed by combining the Kwilu District, Kwilu district and the cities of Bandundu (city), Bandundu and Kikwit, Kwango province from the Kwango District, Kwango district, and Mai-Ndombe Province, Mai-Ndombe province by combining the Plateaux District, Plateaux and Mai-Ndombe District, Mai-Ndombe di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Lwakabwanga
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher * François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks * François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos * François Bonlieu (1937–1973), French alpine skier * François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver * François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American actor * François Clemmons (born 1945), American singer and actor * François Corbier (1944–2018), French television presenter and songwriter * François Coty (1874–1934), French perfumer * François Coulomb the Elder (1654–1717), French naval architect * François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751), French naval architect * François Couperin (1668–173 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kivu Province
Kivu Province was a province in the Belgian Congo, originally called Costermansville Province, that was formed in 1933 from part of the old Orientale Province. The Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) became independent in 1960, and between 1962 and 1966 the province was temporarily broken into the provinces of Maniema, North Kivu and South Kivu. In 1988 it was again broken into these provinces. Location Kivu is the name of the entire region surrounding Lake Kivu, including the portions in Rwanda which contain the vast majority of the lake area's population History In 1933 the provinces of the Belgian Congo were reorganized, and the amount of autonomy of the former provinces was reduced. The new provinces took the name of their capital, with the Orientale Province being split into Stanleyville Province and Costermansville Province. Costermansville Province was renamed Kivu Province in 1947. It was broken into the provinces of Maniema, North Kivu and South Kivu from 10 May 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Moanda
Vital or Vitals may refer to: Places * Vital Creek, a creek located in the Omineca Country region of British Columbia * Vital Range, a subrange in the Omineca Mountains in British Columbia People *Vital (given name) * Vital (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''Vital'' (Anberlin album), 2012 * ''Vital'' (Fernando Otero album), a 2010 album by Fernando Otero * ''Vital'' (Van der Graaf Generator album), 1978 * ''Vital'', a 2009 studio album by Norman Bedard * ''Vitals'' (Mutemath album), 2015 Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Vital'' (film), a 2004 Japanese movie directed by Shinya Tsukamoto * ''Vitals'' (novel), a 2002 science fiction/techno-thriller novel by Greg Bear Other uses * Vital (grape), a Portuguese wine grape grown in the Alcobaça wine region * Vital (Sri Aurobindo), term in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo * USS ''Vital'', two US warships * Vital currents, the concept of currents within the body found in Yoga * Vital Forsikring, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasaï-Oriental (former Province)
Kasaï-Oriental (French language, French for "East Kasai") was one of the eleven Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the new, smaller Kasai-Oriental province, the Lomami Province, Lomami and the Sankuru provinces. It borders the provinces of Kasaï-Occidental to the west, Équateur (former province), Équateur to the northwest, Orientale Province, Orientale to the northeast, Maniema to the east, and Katanga Province, Katanga to the south. Kasaï-Oriental is one of the richest diamond producing regions in the world. The provincial capital is Mbuji-Mayi. History Kasaï-Oriental is inhabited by members of the Luba people, Luba people. Congo obtained independence from Belgium in 1960. Friction with Congo's other ethnic groups and encouragement by Belgium, Belgian corporations hoping to keep their mining concessions led to the secession of the province of South Kasai as a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Muhona
Paul Muhona Lumbu Mukangana Ndjamba was a Congolese and Katangese politician. Early life Muhona was born on 12 May 1934 as the son of André Muhona, a Chokwe, and Sompo Thérèse, a Lunda. Independent Congo and Katangese secession On 16 June 1960, right before Congolese independence from Belgium, the Provincial Assembly of the Katanga Province elected Muhona as a Minister for Public Health, before becoming Minister for Work and Social Affairs. Eleven days after Congolese independence from Belgium, on 11 July 1960, President of the Provincial Assembly Moïse Tshombe declared the independence of the State of Katanga. Muhona became Minister for Work and Social Affairs. His Chef de cabinet was Raymond Deghilage and deputy Chef de cabinet was Christophe Kolongo. After the death of the eldest member of the Katangese government, Joseph Kiwele, Muhona also took over his portfolio as Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs, Youth, and Sports, until the end of the Katangese seces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katanga Province
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika Province, Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba Province, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaire), its official name was Shaba Province. Katanga's area encompassed . Farming and ranching are carried out on the Katanga Plateau. The eastern part of the province is a rich mining region which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds. The region's former capital, Lubumbashi, is the second-largest city in the Congo. History Copper mining in Katanga dates back over 1,000 years, and mines in the region were producing standard-sized ingots of copper for international transport by the end of the 10th century CE. In the 1890s, the province was beleaguered from the south by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foster Manzikala
Foster may refer to: People * Foster (surname) * Foster Brooks (1912–2001), American actor * Foster Moreau (born 1997), American football player * Foster Sarell (born 1998), American football player * John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), American diplomat and politician * Sterling Foster Black (1924–1996), American lawyer * Caroline E. Foster, New Zealand law professor * Jodie Foster (born 1962), American actor Places ;Australia * Foster, Victoria ;Canada *Foster, Quebec, a village, now part of the town of Brome Lake ;United Kingdom * Foster Mill, in Cambridge, England ;United States * Foster (CTA), elevated transit station in Evanston, Illinois, USA * Foster, California (other) ** Foster, San Diego County, California * Foster, Indiana * Foster, Kentucky * Foster, Washtenaw County, Michigan * Foster, Minnesota * Foster, Missouri * Foster, Nebraska * Foster, Oklahoma * Foster, Oregon * Foster, Rhode Island * Foster Township, Michigan * Foster, Wisconsin (disambigua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
