The nine years Olela Shungu spent as the dictator’s personal interpreter often took him to Gbadolite, a decadent palace in a remote part of northern DRC dubbed ‘Versailles in the Jungle’ “Yes, I’m ...
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, ...
In Gbadolite, in the tropical forests of northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), women in bright cotton dresses and high heels saunter along to the sound of soukouss music. But, like the rest of ...
GBADOLITE, Congo — Like its former master, this city of jungle palaces has died. The dinner parties, drenched in pink champagne and filled with shady millionaires, are no more. The fake Louis XIV ...
From last week, continues the author’s narrative of his journey of discovery when in 1982 he accompanied Dr Joseph Wayas, a former Senate president, to Gbadolite in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Mobutu built Gbadolite into a luxurious town often nicknamed “Versailles of the Jungle”. He built a hydroelectric dam on the nearby Ubangi River in Mobayi Mbongo, an international airport, Gbadolite ...
More than 20 years after the fall of the charismatic Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the vast African country with an iron fist from 1965 to 1997, many Congolese look back fondly on the ...
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The late Zairean leader Mobutu Sese Seko was known to have been very rich at a time when his countrymen were wallowing in poverty. The northern DR Congo jungle now encroaches on a palace built by the ...
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Mobutu built Gbadolite into a luxurious town often nicknamed “Versailles of the Jungle”. He built a hydroelectric dam on the nearby Ubangi River in Mobayi Mbongo, an international airport, Gbadolite ...
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