Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West. But 30 years after his ...
For posturing dictators, only putting a new city on the map will do. Fifty years on from Mobutu Sese Seko’s ascent to the presidency of Congo, David Smith explores what’s left of his personal Xanadu, ...
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously ...