Understanding the Congo Crisis
For this project, artist Sapin Makengele produced a large drawing of his vision on the Congo Crisis in co-creation with ...
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Reflection and Methodology: How my ideas about my research have changed since I came to Zimbabwe
Written down in points, the following has changed about the ideas I had in and over my research before coming ...
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Bibliography
Note that websites with recordings or lyrics are directly linked to in the footnotes. De Witte, Ludo, The Assassination of Lumumba. ...
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Conclusion & Reflection
As it has been argued in the short premise of the first section, this work aimed at the dual goal ...
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“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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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