In the 1970s, President Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of what was then Zaire, spent £100m building a luxurious palace complex for himself at Gbadolite, the village his family came from. Gbadolite is deep ...
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 ...
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 ...
PALACES once ruled by feared African dictators have been left crumbling for decades after the tyrants were brutally overthrown. Piled high with flashy diamonds, littered with porn and stacked with ...
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously ...
In the 1970s, President Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of what was then Zaire, spent £100m building a luxurious palace complex for himself at Gbadolite, the village his family came from. Gbadolite is deep ...
An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa (Arsene Mpiana | AFP via Getty Images) ...
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