Authors: David Van Reybrouck
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
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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