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Décembre 1960: des soldats arrêtent Patrice Lumumba (à droite), Premier ministre de l'époque du Congo-Kinshasa, et Joseph Okito (à gauche), vice-président du Sénat, à Léopoldville
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Le colonel Mobutu, chef des forces armées congolaises, salue ses troupes, le 10 décembre 1960 à Léopoldville, alors qu'il tente d'arrêter Lumumba à sa résidence. |
Grand Kallé et African Jazz
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The mother of all independence songs, this moving piece by the great Joseph Kabasele Tshamala (Grand Kalle) - the father of Congolese music and his band African Jazz, was the anthem of the independence movement which began
the process by which the Belgian Congo was to become an independent Congo. The accompanying slide also pays tribute to ...
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INDEPENDANCE CHA CHA :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6BjNJD0ZM
Independance
Cha-cha to zuwi ye !
Oh Kimpwanza
cha-cha tubakidi
Oh Table Ronde cha-cha ba gagner oh !
Oh Dipanda cha-cha tozuwi ye!
Independence
cha-cha declared
Oh Freedom cha-cha we've conquered
At the Round Table they won
Oh Liberty cha-cha we've conquered!
ASORECO na ABAKO
Bayokani Moto moko
Na CONAKAT na CARTEL
Balingani na FRONT COMMUN
Bolikango, Kasavubu mpe Lumumba na Kalondji
Bolya, Tshombe, Kamitatu, oh Essandja, Mbuta Kanza.
Asoreco and Abako
United as one
Conakat and Cartel
had joined the Front commun.
Bolikango, Kasavubu, Lumumba and Kalondji
Bolya, Tshombe, Kamitatu, oh Essandja, and Elder Kanza.
Na MNC, na UGECO
ABAZI, na PDC
Na PSA, na African Jazz na Table Ronde mpe ba gagner !
The Mnc, the Ugeco
Abazi and Pdc
The Psa and African Jazz Band
were all victorious at the Round Table!
Note:
ASORECO, ABAKO, CONAKAT, CARTEL, FRONT COMMUN, MNC, PDC, UGECO, ABAZI and PSA were the Congolese political parties that participated at the Round Table. African Jazz was the Musical Band which originally performed the "Independence Cha-cha". Jean Bolikango, Paul Bolya, Moise Tshombe, Albert Kalondji, Cleophas Kamitatu, Essandja and Mbuta Daniel Kanza were leaders of political and/or separatist movements in Congo. Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the independent Congo (assassinated in January 1961) and Joseph Kasavubu was the first President of the Congo.
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