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Ira Dworkin: Remembering Etienne Tshisekedi, One Year After
Today we welcome a guest post from Ira Dworkin, author of Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State.
In Congo Love Song, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans’ long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.
Congo Love Song is available now in both print and ebook editions.
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Last year, on February 1, 2017, Etienne Tshisekedi, the longstanding Democratic Republic of the Congo opposition leader died at the age of 84 in Belgium after a storied political career spanning more than a half-century. His decades of renowned defiance of President Mobutu Seso Seke led to his election as Prime Minister in 1992 by the Conférence Nationale Souveraine (Sovereign National Conference). Mobutu removed him from office after less
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Félix Tshisekedi
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2019
In this Congolese name, the surname is Tshisekedi and the post-surname is Tshilombo.
Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo[1] (French:[feliksɑ̃twantʃisekeditʃilombo]; born 13 June 1963)[2] is a Congolese politician serving as the fifth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2019.[3]
He is the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the DRC's oldest and largest party,[4] succeeding his late father Étienne Tshisekedi in that role, a three-time Prime Minister of Zaire and opposition leader during the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. Tshisekedi was the UDPS party's candidate for president in the December 2018 general election, which he was awarded, despite accusations of irregularities from several election monitoring organisations and other opposition parties. The Constitutional Court of the DRC upheld his victory after another opposition politician, Martin Fayulu, challenged the result, but Tshisekedi has been accused of making a deal with his predecessor, Joseph Kabila. The election marked the first peaceful transition of power since the DRC's independence from Belgium in 1960.
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