The Rise and Fall of Mobutu Sese Seko Africa`s Richest president.
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- The 32-year rule of the Congo by Mobutu was the biggest kleptocracy in Africa that made him the worlds richest head of state
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He also served as Chairman of the Organisation of African Unity from 1967 to 1968. During the Congo Crisis, Mobutu, serving as Chief of Staff of the Army and supported by Belgium and the United States, deposed the democratically elected government of nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1960.
Mobutu installed a government that arranged for Lumumba's execution in 1961 and continued to lead the country's armed forces until he took power directly in a second coup in 1965.
Correction we made a recording error towards the end about Mobutus death. In the video we said he died in 1977 that was an error he died in 1997.
Thanks Afristory team.
Thank you, well noted
Monumental error.
your channel is great, high quality videos only thing I don't like are the filters and effects you put over the footage and photos , don't think it adds much and makes it harder to appreciate and see the amazing clips youve put together
It's okay. Errors do happen. Good documentary. I enjoyed watching it
😂 just read this after replaying that part 4times. Good video
Africa story told by an African. Love to see it.
Yes about freaking time.
About time👏👏👏👏👏👏
Easy to understand
When Europeans tell their stories you keep yelling It's racism and we need "diversity". Hypocrites.
@@parthamakothna When has Europeans never told their own history? And no one pushes for diversity like white liberals, stop blaming others
Mobutu died in 1997 yet his legacy is almost finished by contrast lumumba was killed 60 years ago but his legacy is still going on and on until the end of time
That's the wrong set of mind.
Ripping off there own people,
What legacy?
Exactly
All the betrayal, suffering and violence just to end up in hell and be looked at as one of the worst men in all of human history
Ls on all fronts
I'm sorry but that's nonsense. Lumumba is virtually forgotten but Mobutu will always live on for giving the world Foreman-Ali.
It's really sad how Africa's problem is Africans themselves and those who love Africa are considered traitors and eliminated! 😭
That is the story of every failed democracy, but no idiot wants to deal with the fact that he himself is the source of all his problems, when there are forginers to blame.
In a lot of these cases though, foreign intervention from the west is usually the catalyst thats sparks coup’s, corruption and civil unrest within these African countries.
If an African leader doesn’t play by the America’s/Euro’s terms Dr then their country/government will be sabotaged, and a new puppet will be put in his place.
@@PRTZN ofcos the west will always be glad to help us destroy what we built
It's corruption and bribing
@@PRTZN exactly. If they don’t obey the Western rules, they’re assassinated. Nkrumah, Sankara, the list goes on.
Every African should subscribe to this channel. I'm Zimbabwean and I want to say thanks family!!
Humbled
yes you are right, Nigerian and am really enjoying it, very interested
Did you listen to our own history narrated by this guy l really enjoyed thank you.
You need to fight to eliminate corruption in zimbabwe. I had a relative that went to zimbabwe in the 1960s to build swimming pools.
He said the farms were so good they could feed half of africa, the business was good and everyone in the city had job opportunities black or indian or greek were paid the same if they had good skill and even a postman could buy a nice home with his salary in just a few years.
The local currency was very good, even stronger that the us dollar.
When he left zimbabwe we asked if people didn't want pools anymore. He said what's the point of having a pool when there isn't Electricity to run the pump, no water to fill the pool and not even gasoline to run a generator? Many of the pools today are still green ponds for frogs or filled with soil... you can just know that it was a pool by the shape.
Zimbabwe is very sad. Amongst all the nations in africa it is the one that that was truly prosperous and that should have been richer than many nations in europe by now. Instead now it has so much debt to china and to the world banks that it won't be able to pay it back until the grandchildren of those that are going to school now will be old. 😔
Lumumba's legacy will gliter forever in the minds of Africans.
But I doubt Lumumba's socialist policies would have worked. Experimenting with Maoism was Mobutu's greatest disaster. Nationalizing foreign businesses was a very bad decision.
@@GizmoMalteseWhy is that? By and large, Lumumba meant well for his people regardless of which "ism" he would have used to govern and actualize the freedom of his people. We clearly saw that Mobutu did not mean well for his people.
@@obynoomere1280 I agree. You can do much worst than Mobutu. I just don't think Lumumba would have done much better if he embraced the terrible socialist policies that nearly destroy Ethiopia and other African countries. I'm not one of those anti-socialist people. I like whatever works.
What the CIA and USA did was terrible and helped ruin Zaire.
What was terrible about his ideas? Was it the anti- Colonialism or was it the anit-imperialism or was it the pan- African Philosophy that he so boldly embrace perhaps it was the African nationalism? I really want to hear the idea that was going to make Congo worst? I’m just as Shock as I’m curious
@@teddib5304 Every African leader who embraced socialism failed miserably. Mobutu's worst decision was to listen to nationalize industries. It led to an insane level of corruption.
I guess if Robert Mugabe had been killed people would remember him fondly as a bold crusader for the people.
I don't want to speak ill of Lumumba. That's not my point at all. I just think that socialism totally failed in Africa. China moved away from it.
But I do think Congo would have been much better off under Lumumba than Mobutu. But I don't think he would have been successful because of his attachment to an economic ideology.
Look to Batswana an example of how to do run a country. Pragmatism not ideology.
“The story of Mobutu’s wealth would require a full episode.”
I would love to see it
Wealth acquired through Corruption when millions of people struggle to make ends meet
History of Africa told by Africans. I love it👍🏾
Indeed
When he lost power, his fortune died with him! Somebody in Europe is keeping all of his riches
And that’s the craziest (and sad) thing. All of these despots and kleptocrats send their wealth abroad, and when their power wanes/they are thrown in jail/killed, their stashed wealth remains abroad as unclaimed wealth.
Switzerland
@@kraitshakti they’re family is taking good care of it don’t worry
Switzerland it is
Mubotu was a big traitor to Africa but all this while his colonial masters were planning his downfall.
No loyalty among these thieves
Always blaming others. Lol
Mobutu ruined the country instead of uplifting it. Stop blaming others
@@KandaEzana That traitor of mobutu served the interests of the western World , and the reason is , he helped ZAIRE TO STAY dépendant to thoses fakes helps from internationals organisations instead of selling the wealths of his COUNTRIE AND investing THE profits in his COUNTRIE'S infrastructures AND PEOPLES but for him to be able to do that. those wealths will have to be sold to a priCe that will give africans the gap they need to make profits, meanning it will be more expensive To get a cell phone in the western WORLD and imagine if those PHONES Were manufactured next to the mines were the stones are extract.
It will change the world No???.
So the western world has no interests to see africans develop africa, thats why they need to curupt our fales leaders. meanning the puppets they put at the highest level level of the africans states. Using freemaconnerie like every countrie they are exploiting.
The fact that the western Word is wealthy is by exploiting the poor COUNTRIES, Period.
IF you say otherwise its because you dont know nothings about economy and capitalism. So that means you should not talk about things you dont know.
Kadafi is the best exAmple He WAS not killed , by western world AGENTS , because he was dictator BUT we was killed because we was investing the profits of his oil ON his PEOPLES AND COUNTRIE. PERIOD.
DO YOUR RESERCHS.
@@James_Holland I totally agree.. another issue was the killing of Patric Lumumba. A man who believed that African should be run own and be for the sole benefits of African first. Also he aided along with the USA and UK multiple coups that led the the deconstruction of fully legally elected leaders. it deeper that what people see.. most people just listen to what the see one BBC or CNN and that it for them.
I really wish to see the nation Congo rise up to the sky. It is one of the richest countries in Africa no reasons what so ever for its people to suffer so much like they do.God bless Congo and its citizens. Greatings from Tanzania.
Am so grateful to have found this channel.. I say as a Kenyan am learning a lot here about African countries and their leaders more than in school . Thanks for sharing.
As an african american i have to say, good work! good to connect with my roots.
These are some horrible roots
Dont stop at watching videos, also travel n visit Africa. I come from Uganda🇺🇬 a nice country
Excellent work brother. Congo appreciates your coverage of our history 👍
Humbled
From Kenya...I am now a true fan of this channel...it has excellent footage and narrative+ hard to find historical videos/photos
My brother, we have 4 national languages in congo, swahili, lingala, tshiluba and kikongo
No dictator comes even close to the great Admiral General Aladeen.
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I look forward to covering General Aladeen one day 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It should be noted that Lumumba first approached the USA for help (before going to the Soviet Union) and they refused to help him. He then resolved to seek help from the other world power at the time which was the Soviet Union. He just needed assistance against the Belgians, he was not interested in communism or capitalism.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Amerikkka ignored him, because he was too wise and would never be their puppet..The same scenario with Uncle Fidel Castro. Long live Lumumba; Viva Fidel🖤🖤
They used his ass and as soon as they didn't need him they got rid of him. We just don't learn do we? You can't trust a snake.
Exactly!!
@Papa F Jose BS to you! Opinions are like a$$h%les we all have one... carry on.
That is American
With all the money he had stolen and the cult personality he'd created for himself over the years, his death was pathetic. May God help Africa!
Why do we expect the rich, the celebrities to die 'better deaths' ???
- Often times, death doesn't give a hoot about status, it has its own ideas, far from what people think.
This is an African telling Africa stories truthfully ...l love... Hope more African can take their voice back ♥️🥂
This is why Ugandans shouldn't worry so much about Museveni.
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Yiiiii waiting for M7s falldown
The best leader of 🇨🇬for me Patrice Lumumba💯💯💯💯💯💯
It's not the good flag it's this one🇨🇩 ... Us we are Congo DRC ( Kinshasa) it's the country of Mobutu and Lumumba.
The one you put 🇨🇬 it's Congo Brazzaville country of Nguesso
I was hoping I would see in this documentary that thing that shows Mobutu descending from the clouds down to earth with that praise music.
The ghost of P.Lumumba brought him down. He simply paid for his atrocities
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Loving this from London, Uk.
We've been cursed with such leaders...
I have to be honest, as corrupt he was and inasmuch he made citizens suffer but I really like the authenticity
Program he established which made him change his Western name to an African name and changed the name of Leopoldville to Kinshasa. I commend him on that part alone. NOT THE REST!!
Mbuso Gcanga, thats where we need to learn from him. Changing a name of a place does not change anything. Its an illusion to simply fool the masses.
With a net worth over 5 billion? Are you guys really these dense?
Still..
Dictator and Corrupt Ruler. Game over
Ok😀..... still waiting on ur point🧏🏽♂️
Similar situation happened to where I'm from.
Norway was occupied by Denmark for 500 years, although you could extend Danish domain much much further back into viking times. Our language and culture became Danish. There was substantial push back in the last 150 years from Norwegian nationalists to oust the danish influence on the language. Today however, as much as 95% Norwegians don't care and prefer dano-Norwegian language in school. It's for practical reasons.
Been waiting for this video! !
Thanks
@@AFRISTORYNETWORK no thank you all your videos are short and informative .
Correct the the date of his death.
He didn't die in 1977.
Great series watching from Auckland New Zealand. Kia Ora
wow
Two things I have always been fascinated by are Physics and World History, though I ended up learning an entirely different stream of science. I came across this video while I was searching for contents related to the history of Congo. Thank you for this. With love, from India.
The wifes jewellery nearly hurt my eyes...
Diamond
It breaks my heart how Mobutu was used by the US government to kill Patrice Lumba who was working so hard to fight for him. Mobutu, may he continue to rot in hell
Mobutu was not used by anyone but his greed. The USA was just a willing enabler.
Good work brother, your channel is growing.
I have just discovered this channel and I am blown away by the content. Thank you for all the videos you have done so far - I cannot wait for more. Be well.
So humbled
great efforts, thank you. I enjoyed it. Shocking to see his parties at Gbadolite. Well done! Keep them coming!
This was so well done, thank you so much man. :)
What a good narrator! keep it up and thank you for sharing this information
Thanks
Amazingly done, thank you for this piece.
He wasn't bad looking in his youth. I'm used to the 1980s-1990s wrinkled up, disgraced Mobutu. Soon as he passed I had to write esa msays and do presentations about him and the history of Zaire in school. I did like how he said his 20+ letter name with his chest.
MOBUTU SESE SEKO KUKU NABANGA WA ZA BENGA
I watched one video from this channel and ended up nearly watching them all! Very entertaining and educational at the same time. Good work. Thanks
This channel is absolutely great guys. Well done.
Thank you for the video, very insightful 👍
im so happy i found this channel!!
I love your videos. Please keep them coming
Humbled
Sold his soul for money and his masters made him pay in the end. Great video. New sub
Well the found a replacement. A much more shrewder and stealthier Paul Kagame. Kagame gives them access to Congo's resources.
@Kurishev Tulipov The Rebel groups are just dogs of war. They have masters
Excellent production thank you
You are doing a great job finally an African telling African stories. This is very eye catching. Keep doing the good work.
Great. Keep up the good work
Love your channel from Canada , respect to you friend
This worth my subscription👏
It would be interesting if you could delve further into how people like this came into power and how they were kept in power! By whom? Why? and for What? That would be the real cinch.
@Papa F Jose My point was that if these were juxtapositioned it would be way more powerful and insightful for many!
Excellent,thanks.
Every time I see an African leader I always see a European next to them or close by.
True
Allies
After that they scare the citizens about Europeans.
South African leaders including Malema and Zuma, they stay at white neighborhood, take their kids to the white schools,after that, they tell how bad white people are
My Zimbabwean uncle actually fought in the DRC war
Really interesting,I am subscribing.
Me too
Thank you for this channel..am learning alot as a kenyan born
Haha. As a Dutchman I immediately recognized the guy next to Mobutu on the picture of this video. He is prince Bernhard, husband of our Queen Juliana. No surprise this man was a friend of Mobutu. The so called prince was a shame for our country, appearing to be a corrupt crook and an insult to our beloved queen because of his infidelity to her. Shame on him!
Wonderful narration!
Ubarikiwe..
I was about to find a different video until I heard the accent of the narrator. I immediately reconsidered..
The accent tells me you're Ugandan. Great work bro. Oli wamanyi
Surely
This was dope, not what the guy did but this video presentation was dope. Salute.
Prepare a documentary about the rise and fall of Museveni who ruled Uganda for 35+ years on a refugee card
Whaaaat!!!
@@ozziekanga2944 he is still balling though as I am typing this reply lol
Ugandans will rejoice when museveni goes too. We are watching
Bobby wine is not a good replacement tho
What fall?
Great video, and I love your accent bro. Keep the videos coming. It would be awesome if you could make videos on the Igbo, Yoruba, and Berbers (Amazigh/Taureg/Malian) as well! 💯💯💯
Will do soon
@@AFRISTORYNETWORK Thank you mate 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 I can't wait to see what you make of my ancestry.
Nicely done
insightful video about Mobutu
Thanks 🙏🏽
Waiting on your compilation of Kenya.
oh me too but we aren't that interesting
@@marykienyere684 yes, I don't think there is much to tell....which is in a way a good thing
Me too....the Moi era
I am seriously enjoying your content...from Kenya.
I appreciate that!
Very nice video 👍🏾 thank you for posting this!
At 6:20 I think you mean the name was changed to Kinshasa, not Kinsansha...
Thanks for the info!
His name alone is story that kills me😂🤣🤣
Being in Australia I know very little about African history or event but I love your channel and new Africa
Listerine Clean Australians need to learn more about Africa because their ignorance is really deep and Confusing.
However I do not blame you because your Continent is really fer away from the main Centres of Western Civilization,
@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 it's mostly cos we don't learn any of it in school we learn Australian and a little British history then just the same major events you guys would have studied
@@listerineclean9258 In Africa many Schools allow for the study of African European and Gh History as well.
You should know your own History well,and as an Australian I do not expect you to be acceptable of African History because you do not live on the continent.
After Covid19 ends I hope to Visit Australia one day.
@@listerineclean9258 Yeah they made you Into UK Citizens.
Thanks
nice documentary
Am enjoying this channel. Getting to know the truth
Hmmmm! Ohhhh! My goodness, I am here to stay❤️❤️❤️
Welcome!!
Good "radio" documentary.
I'm genuinely not surprised about his wealth because he did run one of the richest countries in the world in terms of resources.
Good content we need to know Africans histroy
Very well narrated..,it’s hard to believe Mobutu didn’t realise what Leopald and his party did to the native peoples of surrounding country’s.. also the death Lumumba was unforgivable..😔... the Africa’s are Rich.. in many ways.. not just minerals...improve negotiations with the western country’s.. take back what is rightfully yours... if Africa could put its differences aside.. and group.. it would be so powerful.. will it happen in my lifetime... maybe not.. but one day.. just maybe.. one day☝️
Very nice,I'm your fan.But you have to slow down a bit,so your videos may be as good as documentaries,and not look like you are simply reading notes.We want to absorb what you give us.
Sure will do.
I say it was perfect 👌
@@AFRISTORYNETWORK Thanks for your understanding.
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I remember as a kid growing up in Zimbabwe our military uncles were forever being deployed to DRC.
There is a location in Chegutu called DRC which was built with the money from those deployments so sad..
This is after Mobutu’s death.
He also owned the second largest chateau on the french riviera😏. Guess who was his next door neighbour? King Leopold!🙄🙄😒
Lumumba wa elite man in history of Africa
Africa has it all,my motherland.
Such a nice guy..
Great information. The title needs revision
Any suggestions?
‘The rise and fall of president Mobutu: Does the path of corruption lead to great riches?’ . Any title that ceases to paint him as somewhat of an inspiration. Great work with the video, I appreciate and thank you for uploading this story.
He was just a pawn on the board
Among the models for Mobutu's palaces was the Palace of Laeken (the official residence of the Belgian King). It was also an urban legend in Belgium that he owned the palace next door to Laeken and that it was larger.
Palace of Laeken sounds like Rise of The Lycans. Sounds about right.
Great piece of information. Remember the Palace of Laeken was built by King Leopold using his ill gotten wealth from Congo
@@adroapatricklumumba1618 Sorry for the late reply, but you're incorrect.
The Royal Castle of Laeken was built in 1787 at thee request of Maria Christina of Austria, Duchess of Teschen. That's almost 100 years before Leopold II acquired the Congo Free State...
Maybe you're confusing the Royal Castle of Laeken with the Royal Palace in Brussels? It's true that Leopold II had the Palace in Brussels was extended and modernised under Leopold II's reign. However, the money to pay for it didn't come from Leopold's private money "earned" in the Congo Free State. The money came from the Belgian government. And the government got it from Belgian taxpayers.
Now we have the second Mobutu in Uganda and that is m7
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Walai🤣
Nope. He's nowhere near as rich or influencial
@@jasonMB999 but very close in dictatorship
Our first President, Mr Sukarno,was admiring Mr Patrice Lumumba, and named a main road in our Capital as Street Patrice Lumumba.
However he has same fate as Mr Lumumba, toppled by his own Army General, Mr Suharto. And as Mr Mobutu, General Suharto also ruled Indonesia for almost 40 years, with iron fist. As same with Mobutu, he also sided to the west. And the fate almost same, he was toppled by student movement in 1998.
However we are better from Zaire, which we can avoid the civil war.
Benz Human Problems are the same everywhere,
I lived in DR Congo from 1988 to 1994.
I attended Primary School at Two Schools in Kinshasa and it allowed me to learn the French Language very fluently totally.
Moreover the Country has an amazing folklore and it is a Diamond for the rest of the African Continent.
Hate it or love it Mobutu was an Icon even to those who have criticized his method of governance and style of Governance.
Boenz Thank you so much for your insight and Input for 2021.
@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 yes every leader has it time and era. Hope the future will be better for our country
@@boenzitem8747 Je suis d Accord totalement.
Same old African story. Happens in every African state.
Does it?
History keeps repeating itself in Africa
damn Mobutu was balling
Mobutu Seseko Kuku Ngbendu Wazabanga, the "real evil" of Africa.
You should do cape verden Amerika Cabral
In some ways he as an inheritor to that old monster, King Leopold II. Both treated the Congo as a personal fief and used it to enrich themselves. Though Mobutu as nowhere near as monstrous as King Leopold II, who owned the country 9 years fewer than Mobutu and managed to killed millions more than Mobutu ever did
A interestesting piece of rhetoric, fascinating again that the varying channels are briefly brought into focus by the narration. Not knowing the players, as ever, compels me to think about the sorts of agreement in actuality, rather the scenarios that complicate. Needs be.
Excellent documentary but the commentary seems way too fast. Is the narrator in a hurry?