Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga

Like Guinea's Sekou Touré President Mobutu Sese Seko developed a cultural policy of banning foreign music on the radio thereby enormously boosting local bands...

Despite the fall of Savimbi's backer Mobutu Sese Seko illegal flights to and from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo have increased in recent weeks...

Some saw Mandela's Zaïre efforts as less a mediation between Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent Kabila than a bid to get the government to leave quietly which it more or less did...

The dean of despots Mobutu Sese Seko was chased out in May Sudan's Hassan el Turabi faces coordinated military opposition from north and south Presidents Pascal Lissouba and Ange-Félix Patassé are grimly holding on against armed uprisings and even Nigeria's coup veteran General Sani Abacha has to think twice about plans to win his own presidential election next year...

They are kept alive by their own tenacity UPDF inadequacy – and support from Sudan's National Islamic Front government (AC Vol 38 No 8) and until lately from President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Congo-Kinshasa's neighbours and foreign investors had high hopes of business gains following the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko but the old dictator's legacy of institutional collapse and corruption has cast a shadow over the new government's plans for economic renewal...

Was the United States militarily involved in overthrowing Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Many close observers disagree with the view that Mobutu Sese Seko's overthrow was a definitive African reverse for France to the benefit of South Africa and the USA...

Comparisons between Moi's Kenya and Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaïre are an opposition rallying cry...

For the 90 per cent of the population outside Kinshasa it was another confirmation that while President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and his soldiers had put Mobutu Sese Seko to flight they had no plans to replace dictatorship by broad-based democracy...