La crise du
Congo-Zaïre est structurelle. Ce n’est pas une " démocratisation mal
assimilée qui l’a provoquée mais une pensée nationale anesthésiée par une
dictature de plus de 30 ans. La crise du Congo-Zaïre est une crise de la pensée. La
récupération des structures tribales et du sentiment d’appartenance ethnique est
une carte politique explosive. L’actualité Congo-Zaïroise en témoigne.
L’auteur analyse le traitement colonial et post-colonial de l’ethnicité ainsi
que les idéologies qui ont tenté de l’utiliser ou de la contourner depuis
l’indépendance.
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The issue is largely
exposed in a book which has been just published in French version above (1997) – 144
pages.
Kabamba NKAMANY A BALEME. Prefaced by
Elikia M’BOKOLO
The Congo-Zaïre crisis is structural. It
is not an ill-interpreted democratization that provoked it, rather a national under
anesthesia by a dictatorship of more than thirty years.
The Zaïrean crisis is one of
reflection-following E. M’Bokolo-it is a tribal problem, known as tribalism,
regionalism, ethnicism, geo-politics… At the same time that Mobutu, the strongman of
1965, proclaimed the end of the recreation between the politicians and the national
construction of Congolese (Zaïrean), nation, he concocted the ethnic and regional
strategies that yield poisoning fruits. The recuperation of the tribal structure and
ethnic separation sentiments is a political explosive note. The indigenous Congo-Zaïrean
witnessed the elimination- deportation of Kasaïans from Shaba, the expulsion of
Rwandaphone Tutsi from Kivu, driving some people out according to " Hamitic
faces" and other citizens who are supposed to have "doubtful
nationality"…
The author analyses the colonial and
post-colonial treatment of ethnicity such as the ideologies that were implemented before
and after independence.
KABAMBA NKAMANY A BALEME (Victor)
was born in Luputa, Democratic Republic of
Congo in 1939. A Specialist Medical Doctor and International Civil Servant, he has
published various works about the "Songye People".
