Congo (123 page)

    and MNC, 242, 244, 253, 261

    opponents of, 286, 288

    as orator, 229, 238, 243, 245, 247, 272–75, 284, 286, 301, 334

    and political congress, 253–55

    as prime minister, 265, 269, 271, 276, 299, 304, 309, 405

    in prison, 255, 257, 304–5

    removal from office, 303–6, 329

    and round-table conference, 257, 261

    supporters of, 284, 305, 306, 320–22, 323, 336, 338, 500

    and United Nations, 301–3, 305, 306, 309

    UN telegrams from, 296–99

Lunda Empire, 32, 252–53, 310–11, 371

Lundula, Victor, 287, 288

Lungeni, Mama, 322, 324, 326–27

Lusaka Peace Agreement, 442, 449

Lutunu, 9, 65, 101–3, 109, 110, 113, 116, 137

Lutunu-Smith, Francis, 103

Maasbach, John, 490

Machiavelli, Niccolò,
Principe
, 339, 340

Madame A., 385–86

Mahamba, Alexandre, 336

Mahele, Marc, 429–30

Mai-mai, 411, 420, 423, 443, 447–49, 467, 517, 519

Maindo, Raphaël, 245

Makala prison, 463–65

Makeba, Miriam, 348

Makitu, Mfumu, 101–2, 103, 108

Makulo, Disasi, 29–33, 36, 38, 41–46, 82, 100, 103

    atrocities witnessed by, 88–89

    death of, 322

    in Europe, 64–67

    and Force Publique, 76, 98

    and Grenfell, 68–69, 70, 71, 98

    kidnapping of, 42–43, 327

    at Kinshasa station, 49–51, 55

    marriage of, 71, 98

    and Stanley, 35, 37, 43, 44–46, 49, 99

    and Swinburne, 62–64, 67, 68

    and tribal customs, 70, 71

    and Yalemba mission, 71–72, 88, 98, 103, 324

malaria, 47, 93, 106, 177, 440

Mali, 393

Malula, Msgr./Cardinal Joseph-Albert, 277, 339, 354–55, 400

Malu Malu, Abbé Apollinaire, 496, 517

Mamadou, 453–54

Mampata, Sylvia, 480

Mananga, Camille, 76, 218, 296

Mandela, Nelson, 151, 273, 393, 414, 426, 429, 437, 513

“Manifeste de la Nsele,” 342, 344

manioc, 23, 25, 88

Mao Tse-tung, 320, 321, 322, 352, 355, 364, 528

March of Hope, 402–3, 490, 493, 503

Marie-Antoinette,
mama-présidente
, 380

Marist Brothers, 83, 114

Maron, Amour, 168, 192

Marthoz, Aimé, 168

Masasu Nindaga, Anselme, 418, 431, 435, 466

Masika, Justine, 476

Masunda, Victor, 75, 218

Matadi, 12, 14, 61, 194, 202

Matswa, André, 153, 178

Matuli, 91

Maurice/Moritz, Monsieur, 224

Mayani, Jean, 244–45, 254, 255

Mbila, Suzanne, 156

Mbuji-Mayi, 14, 15

Mbumba, Nathanaël, 371, 372

Mbunda tribe, 320, 321

Mbusa Nyamwisi, Antipas, 451, 453, 454, 467

Mertens, Alfons, 381–82, 394, 408

Methodist missionaries, 47

Michel, Louis, 503

Michels, Gabriël, 308

mining, 118–26, 156, 357, 374

    Chinese owners in, 526–27

    corporal punishment in, 125

    and First Congo War, 428

    and First Republic, 293

    manual laborers, 121–25, 137, 302

    multinationals, 457

    recruitment for, 124, 125

    and Second Congo War, 454–57, 458, 459

    strikes, 191–94

    workers’ lives, 165–68, 171–72

    and World War II, 191

Miss Charm
contests, 212

Miss Congo, 345

missionaries, 8, 22, 46–49, 64, 68–76, 141

    charismatic church, 406, 490

    and local customs, 110

    and nuclear family, 293

    and schools, 98, 113–16, 169, 171, 172, 175, 208, 214, 229, 258

    and social life, 174–75

    violence against, 82–83, 324

    
See also
Catholic Church; Protestant missionaries

Miss Zaïre, 349

Mitterand, François, 390, 392–93

Mkapa, Benjamin, 437

MLC (Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo), 446, 449, 453, 454, 467

MNC (Mouvement National Congolais), 241–42, 244, 253, 255, 261, 263, 264, 275

Mobutu, Joseph-Désiré, 11, 241

    aging, 379–80, 394, 427–28

    and Ceausescu, 363–65, 392

    and the church, 400–401, 489–90

    coups d’états of, 282, 283, 284, 304, 305–7, 330, 336, 338, 394, 410, 497

    death of, 431

    and detribalization, 349

    and
droit de cuissage
, 384–85

    exile of, 431

    fall from power, 328, 395–400, 445

    and First Republic, 283, 284, 300, 306, 311, 315, 319, 323, 324, 325

    and Force Publique, 287, 288

    at Gbadolite, 380–82, 384, 385, 400–401, 403, 409, 430

    health problems of, 344, 427

    as journalist, 247

    and Katanga, 316, 319

    and kleptocracy, 381

    and Lumumba, 303–7, 310

    and Mao, 528

    marshal’s inauguration, 382

    mother’s death, 379–80

    name change of, 348

    and national conference, 397–401

    as national village chieftain, 351

    opponents of, 277, 337, 343–44, 354–55, 371–72, 382–84, 397–406, 435, 493, 521

    as orator, 174, 333–34, 348

    and personality cult, 353, 381–82

    power amassed by, 338–39, 342–44, 346, 356–58, 365, 373, 374, 396, 507

    as president, 330, 440, 449, 458, 463, 481, 513, 531

    as prime minister, 325

    properties of, 380–82

    rivals eliminated by, 336–40, 342

    and round-table conference, 262–63

    and Rwandan genocide, 415–16

    and Rwandan invasion, 418, 426–28, 429

    shadow government set up by, 410–11

    supporters of, 397, 497

    and tribalism, 413

    waning popularity of, 359, 371, 387, 393–94, 395–97, 400, 426, 434

    wealth amassed by, 367, 375

    and Zaïre, 331, 333–51, 389–90

Mobutu, Nzanga, 500, 502

Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga, 348

Mokolo, 92

monetization, 127–28

Monsengwo, Laurent, 400, 402, 404, 405

Morel, Edward, 96, 379

Morel, Léon, 148

Morocco, 233, 241, 270

Mosolo Mpiaka, Alphonsine, 340–41, 373–74

Mount Stanley, 12

Mozambique, 258, 311

moziki
(women’s groups), 235–36

Mpadi, Simon-Pierre, 153

Mpiana, J. B., 434, 477–78, 484, 495, 511

MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), 371

Mpolo, Maurice, 307

Mpoyi, Léonard, 192

MPR (Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution), 342–44, 346, 347, 353, 365, 383, 384, 393, 394, 395, 410, 497

Mpundu, Abbé José, 401–3, 493, 503

Msiri, 8, 32, 38, 58, 308, 453

Muana, Tshala, 496, 503

Mubarak, Hosni, 437

Mugabe, Robert, 445, 513, 528

“Muhindu” (pseud.), 446–47, 460

Mukamba, Mibaas Jonan, 381

Mukanirwa, Jeanine, 446

Mukoka, Raymond, 383

Mulamba, Léonard, 339

Mulele, Pierre, 320–22, 341–42, 372

Mundele-Mwinda, legend of, 193

Mundele-Ngulu, legend of, 193

Mungul-Diaka, Bernardin, 401

Munongo, Godefroid, 307–8

Munzihirwa, Archbishop Christophe, 420

Murjebi, Hamed ben Mohammed al-(Tippo Tip), 32

Musafiri, François, 160

Musekiwa, Isaac, 330

Museveni, Yoweri, 413, 418, 426, 438, 450, 457, 467

Mushiete, Paul, 261

music:

    as anesthesia, 388

    and beer endorsements, 477–80

    Congolese rumba, 168, 219, 235, 553

    and dancing, 167–68, 169, 213, 477

    “Indépendance Cha-Cha,” 259, 495

    Kimbanguist, 144

    
kobwaka libanga
, 495–96

    and politics, 495–96

    reggae, 185

    and urban life, 213, 511

    in Zaïre, 352–56, 388

Mussolini, Benito, 183

Mutebusi, Jules, 472

Mutijima, Régine, 391–92, 395–401, 403–6, 410, 431

Mutinga, Modeste, 396

Muzito, Adolphe, 509