Mobutu Sese Seko: Corruption and Murder in the Heart of Africa

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  • Опубліковано 27 лип 2022
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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  Рік тому +43

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    • @rainerkinzinger555
      @rainerkinzinger555 Рік тому

      Simon, make a video about the corruption of President Biden, and one for the shady and frankly disgusting things hunter has done! That would be an interesting video

    • @pumpthebrakes
      @pumpthebrakes Рік тому +3

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    • @ash.bl.9289
      @ash.bl.9289 Рік тому +5

      Hey Biographic,
      Can you do a biography on Abdol Hossein Sardari?
      He is considered the Schindler of Iran and managed to save many Jews in occupied France by convincing the Nazis, with their own ideology, that Iranian Jews are Aryans like Iranians

    • @paulmeredith2037
      @paulmeredith2037 Рік тому

      Hi Simon can you please do a video Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE he was a British humanitarian who helped to rescue jewish children who were at risk from Nazi Germany just months before the start of World War II he saved 669 children all of them would’ve probably have been killed by the Nazis if he hadn’t got them out please do a video on this man thank you Paul.

    • @JulianPerez-it9sm
      @JulianPerez-it9sm Рік тому

      I can see your almost at episode 600 of Biographics. Are you going to do something special for it?

  • @puppo1848
    @puppo1848 Рік тому +950

    The best part of this video is the sheer pain on Simon's face as he drank that swamp water product and still having to say how amazing it was for the ad read

    • @Chris.Pontius
      @Chris.Pontius Рік тому +105

      It's the only ad I actually watch because I know how disgusted his face looks when he's forced to take a sip of that sewage.

    • @yujirohanma5199
      @yujirohanma5199 Рік тому +91

      That was a heck of a CRINGE when he took that sip.
      Poor Simon, putting his life on the line for his job.

    • @jackiegillyard758
      @jackiegillyard758 Рік тому +6

      My thoughts exactly

    • @conbot
      @conbot Рік тому +27

      Lmfao dude was in pain after that sip.

    • @violetbluejay
      @violetbluejay Рік тому +90

      "I take it with my coffee" Yeah because black coffee might be the only thing that tastes strong enough to have a chance to overpower whatever gutter runoff was in that bottle

  • @RDSyafriyar
    @RDSyafriyar Рік тому +124

    "If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little." - Mobutu Sese Seko

    • @Ruosteinenknight
      @Ruosteinenknight Рік тому +27

      In other life, Mobutu might've made quite a career in Wall Street.

    • @nybotheveg
      @nybotheveg Рік тому +5

      Weird quote by someone who stole 5 billion.

    • @oratiletsimatsima9643
      @oratiletsimatsima9643 Рік тому +5

      @@nybotheveg I once read somewhere that it was actually 40 billion.

    • @bezllama3325
      @bezllama3325 Рік тому +4

      @@nybotheveg He did it just a million at a time I guess

    • @oscardjilo2303
      @oscardjilo2303 4 місяці тому +2

      The actual translation is: "If you must steal! Then you should be considerate, do not empty the jar all at once but rather do it a step at a time”… Mobutu was a cynical man, He actually believed his own BS

  • @duncanmcgee13
    @duncanmcgee13 Рік тому +83

    "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely"
    - Lord Acton

    • @nogi2167
      @nogi2167 Рік тому +15

      “What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.”
      ― Robert A. Caro

  • @filososabke
    @filososabke Рік тому +100

    It is unfortunate that as a Belgian we learn more about our colonial past from UA-cam than in school. So thank you for helping us understand more about a past nobody should be proud of...

    • @m.e.5482
      @m.e.5482 Рік тому +5

      Yaaa ive heard yall were da smallest yet da worst in these times

    • @ourmartin
      @ourmartin Рік тому +1

      This is the mindset needed by all prior colonial powers, we should not celebrate our dark pasts

    • @noreply-7069
      @noreply-7069 11 місяців тому

      @@ourmartin No one is celebrating it. Quite the opposite, it is used as an argument, an excuse to get revenge on these nations by mass migration from former colonies. It's funny when migration is used as revenge but diversity is still our strength.

  • @samwindmill8264
    @samwindmill8264 Рік тому +106

    I first became interested in Mobutu and the history of the Congo because of the many Congolese people I work with. I've heard that at one point, TV news in Zaire opened with a graphic of him descending from heavenly clouds, and that at one point they were forbidden from referring to anyone else by name besides Mobutu.

    • @naoyanaraharjo4693
      @naoyanaraharjo4693 Рік тому

      You can see the footage of it on NewAfrica is video on him

    • @hanbyeol12
      @hanbyeol12 Рік тому +2

      The last part is baseless drivel, honestly, that people were forbidden on TV from referring to anyone else by name.
      If you follow soukous, like Luambo Makiadi, he was always on TeleZaire (with Lukunku mostly) and always sings songs with names other than Mobutu.

    • @davidchrismasamba2491
      @davidchrismasamba2491 Рік тому +1

      Search “Mobutu King of Zaire” documentary on youtube. Very detailed.

    • @davidchrismasamba2491
      @davidchrismasamba2491 Рік тому

      @@hanbyeol12 yeah. I think what she meant was the term “Citoyen” meaning “Citizen”. No one was called Sir, Mr or prefixes of this sort. Instead we were referring to people as “Citizen”, followed by their African name (no European names allowed for Zairians), For example, Citizen Masamba.

    • @hanbyeol12
      @hanbyeol12 Рік тому

      @@davidchrismasamba2491
      nayebi roi du zaire... ezali ya solo te
      mpo na nini réalisateur belge azalaka lokuta boye?

  • @theCongoleseDude
    @theCongoleseDude Рік тому +214

    Simon, you don't know how grateful I am for making this video. Thank you to you and your entire team.
    I am a Congolese, born and bred. And this video is a nightmare relived time and time again.

    • @hanbyeol12
      @hanbyeol12 Рік тому

      sese seke salongo oye

    • @JHG875
      @JHG875 Рік тому +1

      You prefer the way the country became after he was overthrown?

    • @lucycamo4664
      @lucycamo4664 Рік тому

      This dude is gay

    • @tremere26
      @tremere26 Рік тому +3

      @@JHG875 that is like having to chose between living with one arm or one leg. Both suck. But lets not forget, the country is in the situation it is because of Mobutu.

    • @himeezembikahorongo1071
      @himeezembikahorongo1071 9 місяців тому

      dont fool by a white ma telling your own history. There many alive today and do you own research.

  • @Kaltagstar96
    @Kaltagstar96 Рік тому +269

    This would make me want to see more videos done about lesser known dictators and despots, like Africa's 'Napoleon' Jean Bedel Bokassa, who blew most of the Central African Republic's budget on a Napoleon cosplay during a lavish coronation or Francisco Macias Nguema, who ruled Equatorial Guinea and had people shot by people dressed as Santa Clause while 'Those Were The Days' were played over loud speakers.

    • @aloshyreji4313
      @aloshyreji4313 Рік тому +5

      His son is on Instagram

    • @ignitionfrn2223
      @ignitionfrn2223 Рік тому +8

      Indeed, we need more *diversity* in dictatorships !

    • @PhantomEagle..
      @PhantomEagle.. Рік тому +6

      Yeah both of those dictators we're nut cases. Also Those were the days was a pretty good song I'm not gonna lie

    • @armandotalampas4800
      @armandotalampas4800 Рік тому +9

      More African leaders please.... Rhodesia's Ian Smith, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam, South Africa's F.W. De Klerk

    • @spicytomango
      @spicytomango Рік тому +3

      I've never heard of those stories Kal, they sound too crazy to be real. You just gave me something to read, thanks

  • @AndyAxel12
    @AndyAxel12 Рік тому +61

    As Congolese, I clicked this video fast - btw Simon did well telling the story

    • @clintstewart5545
      @clintstewart5545 Рік тому +3

      I will never understand even if born in Belgium congolese descendants like Lukaku play for Belgium, all colonizer were bad but belgians were so cruel !!!

  • @SafeerJ
    @SafeerJ Рік тому +21

    My mother lived in Rwanda during his time in power. She would cross the border daily to go to school in Congo. It was interesting to hear her perspective on how Mobutu was viewed by people who lived under his rule. Great video by the way!

  • @2SNesbit
    @2SNesbit Рік тому +66

    Small related comment... In 1972, I was having part of my Peace Corps training in the Lubumbashi (former Elizabethville) area in Shaba (former Katanga) province. We were staying at the University of Zaire campus. Also there were a group of Zairian college students. Apparently, they had chosen to demonstrate against Mobutu while students in Kinshasa (former Leopoldville). Mobutu drafted them all into the army (could have been worse) and sent them across the country to college in Lubumbashi. As you can imagine, they were not big fans of his. One story they told was that after Lumumba had been killed his body had been dumped in a vat of acid to dissolve it so there would be no memorials to him.

    • @TNOfan4093
      @TNOfan4093 Рік тому +3

      One of the worst stories I've heard about Mobutu was the way he slowly tortured to death Moïse Tshombe

    • @dictiustecare
      @dictiustecare Рік тому +5

      @@TNOfan4093 wrong Lumumba was torture Tshombe dies in jail in Argelia .

    • @MakaveliIITheDonKilluminati
      @MakaveliIITheDonKilluminati 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@TNOfan4093it was Pierre Mulele

  • @ninjaswordtothehead
    @ninjaswordtothehead Рік тому +8

    Mobutu: "European stuff is bad!"
    Also Mobutu: "Be careful with my Dutch paintings and antique French furniture when you're putting it in my European styled mansion."

  • @ghugha9610
    @ghugha9610 Рік тому +8

    Great video. But point of correction, Mobutu did not flee in his personal plane. He fled in a Ukrainian cargo plane. Originally heading to Savimbi, one of Mobutu's body guards forced the Ukrainian pilots to take Mobutu away. At that time Mobutu's personal plane had been grounded in Brazaville.

  • @str8edgedenigmamp96
    @str8edgedenigmamp96 Рік тому +18

    Fries and Mayo IS a valid snack, thank you 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Dr_Do-Little
      @Dr_Do-Little Рік тому +2

      A brit living in e Czech Republic. You don't expect him to have any active taste buds.

  • @jasonhindle4054
    @jasonhindle4054 Рік тому +26

    I found the DRC quite different to any of the other French speaking countries I've visited in Africa. This was a little under twenty years on froth end of the Mobutu Presidency. I'm hesitant to describe the people and culture there as still damaged by the experience, but the institutions surely are. A few of us went out there on business; all came back with stories to tell.

  • @Sukkamaisteri
    @Sukkamaisteri Рік тому +19

    I just had to comment... Se Seko in Finnish means The Crazy, in some cases The Psycho. Just a bit of interesting trivia for some people. 🙂

    • @rimfire8217
      @rimfire8217 Рік тому

      El Manco is a Spanish word for the One-Armed.
      Spanish has a word for One-Armed.

  • @gachikukamau3217
    @gachikukamau3217 Рік тому +22

    These videos are gold 😀 & so well presented, with lots of wit that doesn’t distract from the gravity of their actions. (Big ups to Simon- they are actually the best I’ve found so far). I’m so recommended this channel to my family especially my Dad, (a well read historian) who was always so entertained by Mobutu’s title. Well done

  • @COBALTCOVERT
    @COBALTCOVERT Рік тому +22

    Earlier this week i said i was going on an unhinged campaign to write a Biographics script for President Harrison. As an update, it is going great. Simon and his valiant crew may never see it, but I damn will try.

    • @Ben_the_Rosafan
      @Ben_the_Rosafan Рік тому +1

      Which President Harrison?

    • @COBALTCOVERT
      @COBALTCOVERT Рік тому

      @@Ben_the_Rosafan William Henry Harrison. The one that died a month in

  • @jenniferhaynes8625
    @jenniferhaynes8625 11 місяців тому +3

    Mobutu was a total narcissist. Some of the people of the Congo were totally deceived. He was not for the people of the Congo. Some people are still confused of his snake like ways

  • @albertmisic3876
    @albertmisic3876 Рік тому +66

    Mobutu was excellent example of American policy term "Our son of b*tch". Until someone is American ally and dictator he can do whatever he wants. But if he's not, Americans will activate things like dictator, mad man, genocidal person, abuser of human rights etc. Then he was normal ruler but Mengistu was tyrant. Now we have the same patern. In the media that Asad is ruthless dictator and kings of UAE, S. Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain are OK. Even those rulers have medieval type of society.

    • @paulceglinski3087
      @paulceglinski3087 Рік тому +11

      I'm an American. I liked your comment, but it makes me think of a "what if". What if the US decided to do a little 1930's style of isolationism? Think about this, if all these nations called on the US for lawyers, guns and money because they have a problem in their country. And the US said "so what? Figure it out yourself." What then would you say? As far as I'm concerned, we, the US, should've just watched as their silly asses killed themselves off, but that's just my opinion. In my opinion, my country has enough of it's own internal affairs and the rest of the world can take a flying leap at a rolling donut. Go ask the Russians and see what that gets you. Better yet, ask the Ukrainians about Russian aid, but make sure you shout real loud because a lot of them won't be able to hear you in they're graves. Cheers.

    • @kwaynr1301
      @kwaynr1301 Рік тому +14

      @@paulceglinski3087 if the US would've said "so what" , instead of enriching themselves by waging war the world would've been better off! You seem to think they did those things out of altruism. Very naive.

    • @paulceglinski3087
      @paulceglinski3087 Рік тому +2

      @Darren Right!

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому

      @@kwaynr1301 The world would undeniably be worse off, generally; the world massively benefitted overall from American interventionism due to the absurd amount of money spent on aid and trying to keep the peace in hotspots across the planet. You're very naive to think that the world would suddenly be better by removing one of its few stabilizing influences.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому

      Also, generally OP is dead wrong. Mobutu was de an example of "Our son of a b*tch", but that only applied for the Cold War. As we speak, a US ally has been accused of attempting genocide in Ethiopia leading to US condemnations despite being a US ally. The US had backed off from Saudi Arabia after its war in Yemen, though has been forced to slink back due to the oil shortage caused by the Russian-Ukraine War.
      Generally the US tries to condemn actions its own allies does that are "too far" unless its too geopolitically costly now; which is why it helped toppled all of those dictatorships as soon as the Cold War ended.
      Of course, when it does, those same people cry that the US is being a hypocrite, so no matter what the US will get hated, even if it tries to take a moral stance.

  • @Jalenlane93
    @Jalenlane93 Рік тому +5

    I pray that the Congo gets a competent, courageous, selfish leader. They a vast amount of resources that should be going to its people.

  • @bluegold1026
    @bluegold1026 Рік тому +9

    Thanks for doing a vid on Mobutu! I had been requesting a Biographics vid about him for a while.

  • @frankieseward8667
    @frankieseward8667 Рік тому +47

    Imagine if it was Patrice Lumbata who led the DRC.

    • @duncancurtis5971
      @duncancurtis5971 Рік тому +4

      They found one of his teeth and recently returned it to his family.

    • @michaelsinger4638
      @michaelsinger4638 Рік тому

      That’s all that’s left of him sadly. His body was dissolved in acid.
      Disgusting.

    • @josiahstevens971
      @josiahstevens971 Рік тому +2

      What if it was Patrice O’Neal?

    • @TreyMessiah95
      @TreyMessiah95 Рік тому

      To bad the French killed him

    • @armandotalampas4800
      @armandotalampas4800 Рік тому +2

      Sir Simon should also do a bio about Patrice Lumumba? We ❤️ your channels Simon!

  • @littleblackduck3134
    @littleblackduck3134 Рік тому +4

    Keep doing what you do guys, you got a loyal viewer here, thanx

  • @josegers5989
    @josegers5989 Рік тому +7

    Fries with mayonnaise is not a snack food, it is a meal! Belgian here with full knowledge about the attrocities in Congo under Leopold II and our questionable colonial history! I do have to say that all Leopold II's statutes are removed and all the streets, tunnels etc. that were named after him are being renamed. (small gesture, I know!)

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB Рік тому +1

      Sorry, my preference is the English style of malt vinegar with my fries or sriracha or sriracha ketchup

  • @justsomerandomdude5379
    @justsomerandomdude5379 Рік тому +3

    Loved this episode please do add these episodes to your podcast channel i do loved listening to biographics in my car while driving

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Рік тому +30

    2:50 - Chapter 1 - Cry for freedom
    6:50 - Chapter 2 - Central interference agency
    11:05 - Chapter 3 - The kleptocracy
    15:10 - Chapter 4 - Cold war warrior
    18:55 - Chapter 5 - The war is over, long live the war
    21:50 - Chapter 6 - An old sick man

  • @unculturedweeb4240
    @unculturedweeb4240 Рік тому +6

    This man deserves his own Into the Shadows video.

  • @bradlevantis913
    @bradlevantis913 Рік тому +11

    An outstanding video about a horrific leader. Every western leader who supported this regime should be ashamed for contributing to this

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 Рік тому

      The United States literally overthrew Lumumba because he asked Moscow for help, Lumumba just wanted to turn his country into a prosperous one.
      America is a Terrorist State.

    • @LYLEJ01
      @LYLEJ01 6 місяців тому

      Like the allies supporting Stalin against Hitler...

  • @stevekeeling7988
    @stevekeeling7988 11 місяців тому

    Simon , u and your team really do a great job with with the various channels you maintain and contribute to. Good job guys 👍👍

  • @krisreed3412
    @krisreed3412 Рік тому +10

    Hey Simon, I'm a huge fan of your channels. I mostly consume your podcast content though. I wanted to ask if your Biographics spotify podcast has been cancelled because its no longer available. I'm really sad because this is my absolute FAVORITE podcast I listen to it everyday. Thanks Simon!!!

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter Рік тому +1

    Good video 👍

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    @dmathmothtutinean8950 Рік тому +2

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    @mcc5295 Рік тому

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  • @thecynic9232
    @thecynic9232 10 місяців тому +1

    There is an amazing, tragic book called “King Leopold’s Ghost” which details the horrific rule of the Belgians in the Congo. The stuff of nightmares. None of Africa’s countries were spared from colonialism.

  • @EmilyJelassi
    @EmilyJelassi Рік тому +6

    Excellent and thorough video. I'd love to see videos about other despots/dictators.. they weren't covered in school other than a passing mention, if that.
    Great job Simon and team 👏 💯 😊

  • @Bludgeoned2DEATH2
    @Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Рік тому +29

    If the United States and the West didn't want Lumumba to ask the Soviet Union for help they shouldn't have denied his request for help dealing with the Katanga secessionists and the imminent coup. Lumumba just wanted to help his people and fight against corruption and colonization by Belgium and that, in and of itself, was seen a pro-communist by the USA. Tragic all around.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому +2

      He was already believed to be Marxist aligned, so while your rhetoric makes sense for the micro level, it doesn't make sense at all in the macro level. Generally; the West would not want to align with him in this time period.

    • @Bludgeoned2DEATH2
      @Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Рік тому +3

      @@stephenjenkins7971 Marxism is the only lens by which an oppressed people can free themselves from the shackles of their oppressors so yeah I know he was Marxist, but he was a nationalist first. The West’s utter cruelty in allowing and funding the coup that overthrew Lumumba is why he chose the Soviets, they cared.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому +3

      @@Bludgeoned2DEATH2 That's what Marxists always say before they start oppressing people worse than the capitalists do; and conveniently ignore all the other peoples who were oppressed and then became strong outside of Marxist thought. Or ignores the Marxist nations that themselves were oppressed by...other Marxist nations.
      Either way, you're dumbing down the situation for your politics. The Soviets cared in the same way the Americans cared about Mobutu; they were a useful pawn. At least the Americans had some standards and didn't send tanks against their closest allies when they disagreed -the Warsaw Pact members recall very vividly what Soviet friendship was like.

    • @Bludgeoned2DEATH2
      @Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Рік тому

      @@stephenjenkins7971 Nah lol, a Soviet backed Lumumba government would have been one of peace instead we got a USA backed fascist that destroyed the country. Anyway no reason to argue with an anti-Marxist on UA-cam, I'm sure our time would be better served elsewhere.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому +4

      @@Bludgeoned2DEATH2 Ah yes, because you can name a single regime that was backed by the Soviets that can be called "peaceful".
      Being anti-Marxist is like being anti-fascist; which is to say that its common sense.

  • @mattweltgaievski1636
    @mattweltgaievski1636 Рік тому +2

    Awesome content! Thinking a video about Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo would be cool...or on equatorial guinea regime in general.

  • @JustKrista50
    @JustKrista50 Рік тому +8

    Watching Simon choke down AG1 gives me Lucy Ricardo and her Vitameatavegimen commercial. 😄😄

  • @lapensulo4684
    @lapensulo4684 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @frostyfanatics753
    @frostyfanatics753 Рік тому +2

    Hello, love the vids. Can you do an episode on George VI and George V.

  • @AerikVon
    @AerikVon Рік тому

    Best morning listening ritual

  • @johnh7201
    @johnh7201 Рік тому +4

    Simon please do the Story of James Murray "The professor" and Dr. William Minor "the mad man" who created the Oxford English Dictionary. It's an amazing story I know you'd love to tell!

  • @carlcedricguatlo8924
    @carlcedricguatlo8924 Рік тому +5

    This dictators and autocrats' biographies proves that people always corrupt power.
    I remember you had made a video about the infamous Filipino autocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr., Can I suggest the biography of Ramon Magsaysay, one of the most iconic statesman the Philippines had ever seen and a model of good governance. Thank you, really like the videos.😊

  • @thembibaardman538
    @thembibaardman538 Рік тому +13

    Thanks for this video. Patrice Lumumba was killed with the help of the CIA and Belgium intelligence. In the early 2000`s, both admitted and issued public apologies

  • @mowm88
    @mowm88 Рік тому +5

    Another blight on the world you can thank the Dulles brothers for, and afterwards one of them admitted to the press that Lamumba should have been left alone. No kidding.

  • @hakeemfullerton8645
    @hakeemfullerton8645 Рік тому +7

    Please do a video on Patrice Lumbaba

  • @thecat5872
    @thecat5872 Рік тому +1

    Incredible video just great and disturbing, I’m still waiting on that episode about the Emperor Caracalla though peace!

  • @susandebruin8648
    @susandebruin8648 Рік тому +4

    Please do videos of Desmond Tutu, Wangari Maathai, President Nasser and King Shaka.

  • @franciscojose6496
    @franciscojose6496 Рік тому

    Very important information about history of world

  • @GraceKugrena
    @GraceKugrena Рік тому

    👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 great video, love Congolese History

  • @franciscojose6496
    @franciscojose6496 Рік тому

    Okay let's go watching

  • @6thwilbury2331
    @6thwilbury2331 Рік тому +3

    Note sure what this says about me, but when I think of Mobutu Sese Seko, I immediately think of the Ali-Foreman fight.
    EDIT: whelp, reference to it at 15:09.

  • @pacificdream5152
    @pacificdream5152 8 місяців тому +1

    I really comment on youtube videos, but i'd like to thank you for this video. I am a Congolese and i've always wanted to learn about the history of my country but resources are scare.

  • @RubyGB
    @RubyGB Рік тому

    The house I lived next door to was bought for a couple of U.S Presbyterian missionaries who were had to flee with 20 min to get out taking only only 20 lbs each of their personal things. After the revolution. When the fighting calmed down a few yrs later they were allowed back in and served several more years and were there during the outbreak of Ebola desire but it didn't hit their atea. Altogether they ended spending about 25 yrs in the Congo.They loved the country and the people.

  • @jamesmartin6050
    @jamesmartin6050 Рік тому +7

    Future Video suggestion -
    Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke Рік тому +6

    It's sad to think that he was only kept in power by "foreign interests" purely because he was allegedly "against communism", and as a result, the people suffered, and karma took its' sweet time to bite him in the arse for lauding it up while everyone else died...

  • @catharinepizzarello4784
    @catharinepizzarello4784 Рік тому +9

    I loved it! You make history so entertaining, Simon!

    • @sophiebritton3280
      @sophiebritton3280 Рік тому

      @سلام الصميدعي omg we get the point, you've replied to like every comment

  • @williswameyo5737
    @williswameyo5737 6 місяців тому +1

    DRC is still recovering from the trauma of the despotic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko who was handpicked by the West during the times of the Cold war

  • @MrBlazemaster525
    @MrBlazemaster525 Рік тому +13

    AHAHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE INTERESTING!
    EDIT: Are we gonna see Simon do African despots soon?I cannot wait for the inevitable Bokassa vid!

    • @frankieseward8667
      @frankieseward8667 Рік тому +3

      We got idi amin.
      I would love to see Mengistu Halie Mariam.

    • @Ben_the_Rosafan
      @Ben_the_Rosafan Рік тому +2

      Or Francisco Macias Nguema!

    • @michaelsinger4638
      @michaelsinger4638 Рік тому

      Paul Biya.

    • @Kaltagstar96
      @Kaltagstar96 Рік тому +2

      I was going to say, he was a madman, I think he's already done a video on Mugabi, but what about the bloke who ran White occupied Rhodesia? I'm guessing he also counts as an African Despot?

    • @michaelsinger4638
      @michaelsinger4638 Рік тому +3

      Ian Smith?

  • @Jitenge98
    @Jitenge98 Рік тому

    6:24love how he says the name Kasavubu

  • @ellis7622
    @ellis7622 Рік тому +2

    He was a stylish dresser though, you have to give him that.

  • @michaelgreen1515
    @michaelgreen1515 Рік тому +1

    Mobutu lived out the embodment of the pre-Belgian, colonial Congo Free State of Leopold as writen about and witnessed by Joseph Conrad. To name this video the heart of darkness is apt but means nothing without reading the background.

  • @babscabs1987
    @babscabs1987 Рік тому +6

    Whoa whoa whoa Sweet child of mine, fries and mayonnaise is a perfectly acceptable snack, regardless of what country you come from.
    5:12

    • @lauriepenner350
      @lauriepenner350 Рік тому

      Next time you eat fish and chips, put a little tartar sauce on the fries. That's the gateway.

    • @babscabs1987
      @babscabs1987 Рік тому +1

      @@lauriepenner350 if fish is involved then of course

    • @babscabs1987
      @babscabs1987 Рік тому

      @سلام الصميدعي you want me to pray?

  • @rorisangsathegi
    @rorisangsathegi Рік тому +1

    Mobutu sese seko nkuku bengu waza banga

  • @mushroomsamba82
    @mushroomsamba82 Рік тому

    2:38 "Hooberis"? Sheesh, that was a bad one even for Simon 😂

  • @franciscojose6496
    @franciscojose6496 Рік тому

    Go watching

  • @josephkmeyer5178
    @josephkmeyer5178 Рік тому +6

    I’m wondering if you all would ever be willing to do one on Governor George Wallace? I think his trip from moderate to the face of segregation, his presidential campaign and assassination attempt, all the way back to moderate is an interesting story. Just how chasing the vote and populism can change someone for the worse.

  • @ash.bl.9289
    @ash.bl.9289 Рік тому +5

    Hey Biographic,
    Can you do a biography on Abdol Hossein Sardari?
    He is considered the Schindler of Iran and managed to save many Jews in occupied France by convincing the Nazis, with their own ideology, that Iranian Jews are Aryans like Iranians

    • @ash.bl.9289
      @ash.bl.9289 Рік тому

      @سلام الصميدعي
      Rahemak Allah eai Saddam Hussein.

  • @meagtaylor3392
    @meagtaylor3392 Рік тому +14

    I took a class at my college on African history and I did a report on the DRC and by extension Mobutu. It truly makes me sad to see all the problems facing the DRC, when I know they could be so much better off, if only foreign governments had just left them alone!

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 Рік тому +8

      As an African, I think that colonialism is no longer an excuse for modern African governments to deliver nothing to their people. The main reason for Africa's problems now is corruption/mismanagement, and not foreign intervention.

    • @michaelimbesi2314
      @michaelimbesi2314 Рік тому

      The foreign intervention is really just down to setting up extractive institutions during the colonial period. The lack of progress is really just down to the current leadership’s use of those institutions to enrich themselves and exploit the people. The simple fact is that none of the leaders ever had any desire to improve the lives of the Congolese people, they all just wanted to gain power in order to use it to enrich themselves. They’re just Vladimir Putin in a different place.

    • @wandiledlamini2591
      @wandiledlamini2591 Рік тому

      @@beno1129 Excuse fellow African but know that these corrupt politicians are installed by western imperialist countries and governments

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 Рік тому +1

      @@wandiledlamini2591 If you want to keep blaming foreign powers for our problems in 2022, rather than taking ownership of our destiny and, for example, voting for capable leaders and participating in community development schemes, then frankly that's part of the modern problem. Plus the concept of Western imperialism is getting old at this point. There are lots of other big foreign players in Africa these days, mainly China.

    • @wandiledlamini2591
      @wandiledlamini2591 Рік тому

      @@beno1129 all I’m saying is politicians are puppets they will always serve their pockets instead of their people

  • @petrovtiganu9904
    @petrovtiganu9904 Рік тому

    You tube is unwatchable due to ads great channel though.

  • @hankw69
    @hankw69 Рік тому +1

    Wakanda forever! What...that wasn't these guys? Forget about it...

  • @Nabily007
    @Nabily007 Рік тому +4

    love your videos as always
    long shot here but i would love to see traditional pre islamic and post islamic classic arabic poets like El-moutanabi and the likes.
    i had the books covering their biography but i lost it :(

  • @cyizarwanda5488
    @cyizarwanda5488 Рік тому +2

    Can you do Tomas Sankara?

  • @marial4048
    @marial4048 Рік тому +1

    Otto Avon Bismarck Bio: I know you guys love wars, shall we? My best line, thank you for your videos 🙏

  • @rollingmetal949
    @rollingmetal949 Рік тому +4

    Pretty fitting that Seko means loonie in Finnish

  • @sifamuzimbe4266
    @sifamuzimbe4266 Рік тому

    Gbadolite😂😂😂...sorry Simon that took me out!!!

  • @jackkingsman2758
    @jackkingsman2758 Рік тому +9

    This is so sick, just turned in a paper on the subject of Coltan in D. R. Kongo for university. Had to take a look at this guy, too. Coincidence? I THINK SO!

  • @nicholasstocker6866
    @nicholasstocker6866 Рік тому +1

    Why am I addictive to watching Biographics doing a video on murderous leaders? 🤷‍♂️

  • @PsychoDad89
    @PsychoDad89 Рік тому +3

    "I love democracy" - Mobutu

  • @sembelekendelela6849
    @sembelekendelela6849 4 місяці тому

    YES

  • @wearenot7withyou
    @wearenot7withyou Рік тому +3

    It’s so interesting learning about lesser known dictators that aren’t mentioned as much as others.

  • @pyromania1018
    @pyromania1018 10 місяців тому

    Actually, Lumumba initially appealed to the West for help, playing on his desire for democracy. But Belgium had already slandered him to the USA and the UN by spitefully claiming he was anti-white, anti-western, and a Communist. That last part became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • @Mw-un8yy
    @Mw-un8yy Рік тому +1

    Simon, KINDLY MAKE A CLIP ON KENNETH KAUNDA

  • @sifamuzimbe4266
    @sifamuzimbe4266 Рік тому

    The way he says Kasa-vubu 😂

  • @djdrack4681
    @djdrack4681 Рік тому

    Soylent Green: Is my kind of people.
    AG1: "Hold on now, we're not quite there yet; but have you tried us"

    • @michaelroberts3898
      @michaelroberts3898 Рік тому

      Oddly enough, there is now a company called Soylent making nutritional products. When my son told me there’s a musical group called Soylent Green, I immediately responded with Soylent Green is people!!! Being aware of the film, he laughed while his wife looked at us as if we were unhinged. Good times

  • @jaysvthashtag8825
    @jaysvthashtag8825 Рік тому

    Simon
    I'm back and please do steve biko

  • @Outlaw88
    @Outlaw88 Рік тому

    Would love to see a video on Vince McMahon.

  • @NathanCassidy721
    @NathanCassidy721 Рік тому +4

    The fact that one of the worst dictators in modern history was a former journalist is not lost on me based on how the corporate press behaves.

  • @multipletanksyndrome
    @multipletanksyndrome Рік тому

    You ought to do a video about Pop Warner. He's synonymous with youth American football. However, I doubt many Americans actually know much about him. He was quite a cad. He cheated, and forced so many rules. But, he also invented so much of the game we know today, like the forward pass. Before that, it was much more like rugby.

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 Рік тому

    James Buchanan: I must say I'm a huge fan Mobut-you make me look pretty competent in comparison

  • @dianeharris6695
    @dianeharris6695 Рік тому

    I love the scripts on African dictatorships and in Geographics the African based scripts as well. Very educational and helps those who have little knowledge about these topics *Americans with public education(me)*

    • @davidgessin-mccully3919
      @davidgessin-mccully3919 Рік тому +2

      Speak for yourself as I’m an *American with a public education* and I learned about it. You must have fallen asleep during that part of class 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @dianeharris6695
      @dianeharris6695 Рік тому +1

      @@davidgessin-mccully3919great flex bro

    • @davidgessin-mccully3919
      @davidgessin-mccully3919 Рік тому

      @@dianeharris6695
      “Great flex bro” Lmfao 😂😂 that statement right there is exactly why you didn’t learn anything in school and were probably unable too. You’re the reason Americans are laughed at being completely unaware of world history as you are. Crack open a book at some point you know those pieces of paper bound together with words and maybe just maybe your ignorance will go away.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Рік тому

      @@dianeharris6695 He ain't wrong, I did too. :D

    • @dianeharris6695
      @dianeharris6695 Рік тому

      @@stephenjenkins7971 cool cool cool.. so I guess I had a sub par education from the south where they are literally trying to stop education about MLK btw and complimented this channel for bringing this awesome knowledge to me....again great flex guys. Or you can recognize that not everyone received the same education Y'all did and chat these channels up instead of posting on a thread that was trying to ask for more of these amazing individuals. But you know to each their own.

  • @josefwissarionowitschstali1225

    I envy his hat. That had style.

  • @LMaxx5
    @LMaxx5 Рік тому

    Ex-so-lent reporting!

  • @abdirahman7864
    @abdirahman7864 Рік тому +1

    He is type of leader we don't need in africa .

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn Рік тому +18

    Humbly requesting George Carlin. A comedian and satirist who oftentimes hit the nail more than just on the head; and whose bits were infinitely more than just satire. The guy was a comedian, satirist, begrudged philosopher, and even the narrative voice of Thomas the Train.

    • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
      @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Рік тому +2

      Soon, my friend. Soon. (I think I said this alot but as a wise president man once said: "Persistence is key!")

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn Рік тому +1

      @@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 absolutely my friend! Persistence is key!

  • @masonfisher1883
    @masonfisher1883 Рік тому +1

    Id like to see a video on one of the Beatles. Edit, looks like i got what i wished for, George is my favorite Beatle too

  • @matthewpoe1056
    @matthewpoe1056 Рік тому +1

    How about Steven Biko biography?

  • @Fujitora-ve5dz
    @Fujitora-ve5dz Рік тому +7

    Lol saw that name and clicked quick😂 this man ruined my country lmao

  • @mrsupreme4668
    @mrsupreme4668 Рік тому +2

    Could you please do Manuel Noriega the dictator and drug lord of Panama