Congo (126 page)

UDPS (Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social), 383–84, 397, 467

Uganda, 16, 60, 376, 413, 426, 431, 438, 524

    and Congo’s natural riches, 455–57, 467, 471, 525

    and Second Congo War, 442, 445, 446, 450–51, 453, 454, 459, 467, 471, 472

Ujiji, 32

Umoja wetu, 524

UNICEF, 465, 476

Unilever, 126, 161

Union Congolaise, 178–79

Union Minière de Haut-Katanga (UMHK):

    creation of, 120, 121

    employees, 164–65, 176

    and independence, 263

    and Katangan secession, 295, 305, 313, 314–15

    mining industry, 123–24, 126

    nationalization of, 345–46, 356

    strikes, 192–93

    working and living conditions, 124–25, 167, 171–72

    and World War II, 190

UNITA, 371, 445, 466

United Nations:

    Charter, 201–2, 258

    and China, 528, 530

    Congolese ambassador to, 265

    and decolonization, 256, 556

    and First Republic, 282–83, 294, 300, 301–3, 305–6, 309, 326

    Hammerskjöld’s death, 316

    Human Development Index, 510

    and Katanga, 312, 315–16, 317, 318, 319

    MONUC, 468, 470–71, 472, 475, 488, 501, 502, 521, 524, 535

    and NGOs, 476

    ONUC, 297

    and Rwandan genocide, 414–16, 437

    and Rwandan preparation to invade Zaïre, 417–18

    and Second Congo War, 442, 449, 450, 467, 473, 495, 556

    telegrams to, 296–99

    and Third Republic, 524

    and Zaïre shadow government, 410

United States:

    and colonies, 37–38

    and Congo elections, 500

    and First Congo War, 426

    and First Republic, 283, 299, 301, 309, 319, 531

    and IMF, 531–32

    and Third Republic, 513

    and uranium, 190–91, 298

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 392

uranium, 119, 190–91, 298, 319

U Thant, 316

Van Acker, Gustaaf, 74

Van Bilsen, Jef, 230–31, 232, 233, 246, 512

van den Brink, Dolf, 476, 479–80, 483–85

Van-Duel, Désiré (Rovinscky), 292–93, 333

Vangele, Alphonse, 102

Van Hemelrijck, Maurits, 251

Van Impe, Reverend Father, 64

Van Kerckhoven, Guillaume, 51

Van Lierde, Jean, 272

Van Reybrouck, Dirk, 312–15, 316–18

Verbrugghe, Albert, 317

Verscheure, Frans, 308

Vetch, Francis, 51

Victoria, queen of England, 57

Vietnam War, 298, 345–46, 347, 356, 358

Virunga National Park, 518

Vleeschouwers, Frans and Marja, 314, 318

Vodacom, 474–75, 484, 486

Vumilia, Antoine, 465–67

Wall Street crash (1929), 156, 175

Wamba dia Wamba, Ernest, 443, 446, 449, 451, 452–53, 516

Wanzungasa, Papa Marcel, 145, 146–47, 151, 152, 154

Ward, Herbert, 46

Waterloo, Battle of, 38

wax hollandaise
, 355, 536

Weeks, John, 65

Welles, Ernest T., 48, 72

Wemba, Papa, 388, 434, 477, 482, 491, 495

Werrason, 477–82, 483–86, 494–96, 497–98, 511

White Fathers (Society of Missionaries of Africa), 47, 72, 74

Wigny, Pierre, 293

Wijnants, Petrus, 227

Winden, James van, 448–49

witchcraft, 406–7, 478, 492, 550

wolfram, 119, 191

works councils, 214

World Bank, 375, 391, 512–13, 526, 531, 532

World War I, 108, 129–40, 188, 323, 439

    anniversary of, 129–30, 135–37, 181

    impact on Africa, 60, 440

    Paris Peace Conference (1919), 138

    postwar attitudes, 225

    Treaty of Versailles, 138

World War II, 136, 178, 181–99,
184
, 440

    and atomic bomb, 189–90

    conquest of Saio, 181, 183–85

    crossing of the Sahara, 186–87

    effects in interior, 194–99

    end of, 199–201

    and Geneva Convention, 189

    postwar attitudes, 67, 135, 193–94, 199–202, 224–26, 298

    postwar unrest, 193–94

    raw materials in, 191

    veterans of, 200–202, 290

Yakusu mission, 70

Yalemba mission, 71–72, 88, 98, 324, 327

Yalta, 201

Yambani (bodyguard), 387

Yambuya, Pierre, 370, 372, 386–87

Yav, André, 123–24, 125, 175, 192

Yerodia, Abdoulaye, 467

Yoka, Eugène, 77, 373

Youlou, Fulbert, 270, 309

Yugoslavia, 309

Zadkine, Ossip, 352

Z’Ahidi Ngoma, Arthur, 467

Zaïko Langa Langa, 348

Zaïre, 11, 331–33

    art and music in, 352–56

    atrocities in, 341–42, 372, 386–87, 411, 413–16, 423–25

    authenticity policy, 352–55

    constitution of, 342, 383

    corruption in, 367, 370–71, 373, 375, 379, 381–82, 388–90, 405

    currency of, 377, 378, 407–8, 410–11

    as decentralized military dictatorship, 339, 346

    deterioration of, 390, 406, 409–11, 420

    economy of, 334, 345–46, 356–59, 374–79, 390, 406, 407–8

    elections, 394, 395–98, 401, 404, 405, 410, 416

    ethnic violence in, 411–16

    First and Second Plundering, 409

    First Congo War (1996–1997), 417-27, 439; map,
427

    genocide in, 413–16, 426

    industrialization of, 374

    infrastructure, 344, 367–69, 379

    and international events, 344–45

    military uprisings in, 371–72, 399–400, 408–9

    names in, 332–33, 351, 354

    nationalism, 351–54

    parallel economy in, 389–92

    plane crashes in, 370

    political refugees in, 415–16, 417, 421, 423–24

    privatizations in, 378

    propaganda in, 351, 352–53

    public spectacles in, 365–70

    regime change,
see
Democratic Republic of the Congo

    reign of terror in, 385–87

    religious protests in, 401–3

    ruled by fear, 340

    “rumble in the jungle,” 346–48, 360–62

    Shaba I and II wars, 371–72, 373

    as single-party state, 342–44

    spies in, 385, 386, 396, 405

    state television, 334–35, 360–61, 368–69, 373, 396, 398

    student movement in, 342–44, 349, 396

    superparliament, 410

    taxation (
Salongo)
, 344

Zaïrianization, 357–58, 359

Zambia, 16, 245, 376, 431, 526

Zanzibar, 31, 38

Zanzibaris, 76, 80–81

Zao (singer), 135

Zimbabwe, 444–45, 530

zinc, 119, 191

Zinga, Joseph, 8, 72

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DAVID VAN REYBROUCK
is an award-winning author and an acclaimed playwright, reporter, and poet who holds a doctorate from Leiden University. He has traveled extensively throughout Africa and has been actively involved in organizing literary workshops for young Congolese writers in Kinshasa and Goma. He lives in Brussels.

For his translations of more than thirty novels and works of nonfiction,
SAM GARRETT
has been short-listed for many awards, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2005, 2013), the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2010), and the U.K. National Book Award (2012). He is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation.

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