Art & identity shape nations. Mobutu understood this, but culture became a political tool
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L'art forge l'identité nationale. Mobutu le savait, mais la culture devint outil politique

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[ Forthcoming biography of Sindika Dokolo ]

Palais de Marbre, joyau de marbre de 1970 à Ngaliema, fut d’abord la résidence d’Albert Ndele Bamu.
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Later, Mobutu made the Palais de Marbre his own hilltop retreat, overlooking Ma Campagne near the Dokolo family home.

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1971: Augustin Dokolo devient président de la FNCCIA sous Mobutu.

Augustin, a key architect of Mobutu's reforms.

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