#mobutu — Public Fediverse posts

Hoare, Denard, and their peers were not romantic adventurers. They were enablers of authoritarianism, extraction, and long-term instability whose consequences Africa still lives with. 12 🔚
#History #ColdWar #Africa #Mercenaries #Decolonisation #NeoColonialism #DRC #Mobutu #BobDenard

Hoare, Denard, and their peers were not romantic adventurers. They were enablers of authoritarianism, extraction, and long-term instability whose consequences Africa still lives with. 12 🔚
#History #ColdWar #Africa #Mercenaries #Decolonisation #NeoColonialism #DRC #Mobutu #BobDenard

Hoare, Denard, and their peers were not romantic adventurers. They were enablers of authoritarianism, extraction, and long-term instability whose consequences Africa still lives with. 12 🔚
#History #ColdWar #Africa #Mercenaries #Decolonisation #NeoColonialism #DRC #Mobutu #BobDenard

Hoare, Denard, and their peers were not romantic adventurers. They were enablers of authoritarianism, extraction, and long-term instability whose consequences Africa still lives with. 12 🔚
#History #ColdWar #Africa #Mercenaries #Decolonisation #NeoColonialism #DRC #Mobutu #BobDenard

Hoare, Denard, and their peers were not romantic adventurers. They were enablers of authoritarianism, extraction, and long-term instability whose consequences Africa still lives with. 12 🔚
#History #ColdWar #Africa #Mercenaries #Decolonisation #NeoColonialism #DRC #Mobutu #BobDenard

Hoare’s long association with Congolese dictator General Mobutu Sese Seko destroys the romantic narrative. #Mobutu was a kleptocrat whose rule hollowed out the state. Anyone helping keep him in power was complicit — full stop. 4)

However, I do remember this from vaguely 1975 and it was crystallized by the documentary #WhenWeWereKings which also has contributions from Mailer and others like #GeorgePlympton and goes into the build up to the fight which took place in #Zaire under #Mobutu.

The book is amazingly written and the way Mailer describes events is superb in my opinion. He really brings the training and the sparring (both literal and figurative between Ali and Foreman) to life. [Cont...]

However, I do remember this from vaguely 1975 and it was crystallized by the documentary #WhenWeWereKings which also has contributions from Mailer and others like #GeorgePlympton and goes into the build up to the fight which took place in #Zaire under #Mobutu.

The book is amazingly written and the way Mailer describes events is superb in my opinion. He really brings the training and the sparring (both literal and figurative between Ali and Foreman) to life. [Cont...]

However, I do remember this from vaguely 1975 and it was crystallized by the documentary #WhenWeWereKings which also has contributions from Mailer and others like #GeorgePlympton and goes into the build up to the fight which took place in #Zaire under #Mobutu.

The book is amazingly written and the way Mailer describes events is superb in my opinion. He really brings the training and the sparring (both literal and figurative between Ali and Foreman) to life. [Cont...]

However, I do remember this from vaguely 1975 and it was crystallized by the documentary #WhenWeWereKings which also has contributions from Mailer and others like #GeorgePlympton and goes into the build up to the fight which took place in #Zaire under #Mobutu.

The book is amazingly written and the way Mailer describes events is superb in my opinion. He really brings the training and the sparring (both literal and figurative between Ali and Foreman) to life. [Cont...]

However, I do remember this from vaguely 1975 and it was crystallized by the documentary #WhenWeWereKings which also has contributions from Mailer and others like #GeorgePlympton and goes into the build up to the fight which took place in #Zaire under #Mobutu.

The book is amazingly written and the way Mailer describes events is superb in my opinion. He really brings the training and the sparring (both literal and figurative between Ali and Foreman) to life. [Cont...]

1960-1965: #Congo
In 1960, the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) declared its independence from Belgium and democratically elected its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Shortly after he assumed power, President Joseph Kasavubu pushed him out of office amid a Belgian military invasion. Worried that the ensuing unrest provided fertile ground for Soviet incursion, the CIA encouraged and assisted attempts to kill Lumumba, arguing he was a communist leader akin to Castro. The CIA helped facilitate Lumumba’s capture in 1960 and assassination in 1961.
“This action precipitated the Congo Crisis (1960–1965), a period in which military leader Mobutu Sese Seko consolidated power in the country. In 1965, the #CIA supported Mobutu’s coup to take over the Republic of the Congo in the name of preventing the spread of communism. #Mobutu became a #dictator who ruled the country until 1997.”

https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments

#Africa #HumanRights 
#Covert 
#Corporatism
 #Corporatocracy 
#Corruption
 #Capitalism
 #Colonialism