Bibliography
Note that websites with recordings or lyrics are directly linked to in the footnotes. De Witte, Ludo, The Assassination of Lumumba. ...
Read More
Conclusion & Reflection
As it has been argued in the short premise of the first section, this work aimed at the dual goal ...
Read More
“Our candidate is Mobutu”: Propaganda in “Candidat na biso Mobutu” (1984)
Leading up to the 1984 presidential elections, the Congolese government sponsored a Franco record that was meant to raise support ...
Read More
Appropriating the Legacy of Lumumba in “Lumumba, Héros National” (1967)
In 1967, Franco and O.K. Jazz published a song which was titled “Lumumba, Héros National”. The song is mostly in ...
Read More
Franco: A Musician in Service of Mobutu?
The most well-known and visible musician to have answered such a call, was the famous guitarist François Luambo Makiadi, commonly ...
Read More
Animation Politique et Culturelle: Mobutu’s Use of Music in Propaganda
The quintessential manifestation of how the regime of Mobutu cleverly and strategically exploited the political potentiality of cultural forms of ...
Read More
“To Throw a Stone”, or Kabwaka Libanga
One phenomenon that perfectly acts as a mirror to the musical reality that took shape during the period here under ...
Read More
Music as a Social Ladder and Musicians to be Used as Stepping Stones
To understand how music could literally put food on the table, that means music potentially being a concrete tool to ...
Read More
