History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Elikia M'Bokolo. History of the Congo. Luba, Kuba, Lunda and Kongo Kingdoms
The historian Elikia M'Bokolo
was born in Kinshasa, DR Congo (Central Africa)
- 200,000 years: archaeological sites of Mulundwa (Katanga)
- Primitive population: the Pygmies
- 2nd millennium BC: Bantu migrations
- Middle Ages (end): Luba, Kuba, Lunda and Kongo Kingdoms
- Contacts with the Europeans
- From fifteenth to nineteenth century: Slave Trade; slavery
- 1885: Colonisation (Leopold II of Belgium)
- The colony as
a personal and private possession of the Belgian King
- 1908 - 1960: Belgian Congo
- 1960: Independence (Belgium)
- President: Joseph Kasa-Vubu
- Prime Minister: Patrice Lumumba
- DR Congo
- 1960: independence of the State of Katanga (Lubumbashi)
- 1961: Lumumba is killed (deported to Katanga by Mobutu)
- Recovery of Katanga
- 1964 - 1971: the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
- Wars (500,000 dead)
- Mines Nationalisation (1966)
- 1971: Republic of Zaire (zairianisation of the economy)
- 1977 - 1978: Shaba wars
- 1996 - 1997: First Congo War
- 1977: The second Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1997 - 2001: Presidency of Laurent-Désiré Kabila
- 1998 - 2002: Second Congo War
- 2001 - 2003: Acting Government of Joseph Kabila
- 2003 - 2006: Transitional Government
- 2006: Presidency of Joseph Kabila
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