Machtsverwerving en machtsuitoefening in Kongo-Zaire 1960-86

Zaire and Sudan

Eradication programmes in a group of contiguous countries of western and westcentral Africa began in 1967 and 1968, with support primarily from the USA and technical assistance provided by the United States Communicable Disease Center. East of this area lay two of Africa's largest countriesZaire and the Sudan (Fig . 18 .1). (Zaire was named the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1960 to 1971...

Deep Thought : Structure / and Intention / in Kongo / Prophetism , / 1910 - 1921

In 1963, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I wrote a master's thesis on the antecedents of 1921 Kongo prophetism (ngunzisme, after the KiKongo for prophet, ngunza; "Kimbanguism," after the name of the most prominentfprophet, Simon Kimbangu). The thesis pieced together accounts of traditional and new urban cults which sought, through purification and initiation, to fashion an i...

Understanding the Unending Crisis in Zaire

Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976.

Between 1 September and 24 October 1976, 318 cases of acute viral haemorrhagic fever occurred in northern Zaire. The outbreak was centred in the Bumba Zone of the Equateur Region and most of the cases were recorded within a radius of 70 km of Yambuku, although a few patients sought medical attention in Bumba, Abumombazi, and the capital city of Kinshasa, where individual secondary and tertiary ...

Epidemic spastic paraparesis in Bandundu (Zaire).

Epidemiological findings of twenty sporadic cases of epidemic spastic paraparesis (buka-buka) in three areas of Bandundu (Zaire) are reported. These findings suggest the involvement of an infectious agent and do not support the hypothesis of a dietary cyanide intoxication, which has been advanced to explain the outbreak of a very similar disease (Mantakassa) in Mozambique.