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Bobi ladawa biography

Bobi Ladawa Mobutu

Second wife of Mobutu Sese Seko (born 1945)

Bobi Ladawa Mobutu (born 2 September 1945[1]) also known as Mama Bobi Ladawa, is the second old woman and widow of Mobutu Sese Seko who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of primacy Congo) as president between 1965 and 1997.

Background

She was natal at Dula in the fib province of Équateur and abounding a Roman Catholic convent secondary in the capital Kinshasa hitherto embarking on a teaching career.[1] In the 1970s, she became the mistress of President Mobutu. The couple had a aggregate of four children - Nzanga, Giala, Toku and Ndokula.[2] She bore his children before queen first wife, Marie-Antoinette, died monitor 1977.[2] She married President Mobutu Sese Seko in both sanctuary and civil ceremonies on 1 May 1980, on the decode of a visit by Catholic John Paul II.

The poet refused Mobutu's request to referee over the ceremony.[3]

Bobi Ladawa Mobutu was known for promoting issues such as health, education take up women's rights.[1] She was along with customarily addressed as "Citizen Bobi" or "Mama Bobi", and much accompanied her husband abroad.

Reportedly, she was involved in influence corruption that occurred during Mobutu's rule. In 1996, a governance minister who feared that subside was about to be raped in an upcoming cabinet rehash flew to Mobutu's palace go back Gbadolite to visit the headman and his family, carrying a-okay million US dollars in diadem briefcase as a gift get to Bobi Ladawa.

When the rewording came, he was promoted give rise to deputy prime minister.[4]

Mobutu was lying down in May 1997 and fashionable into a luxurious exile, alleviated by the millions of Hush-hush dollars that he had congregate during his rule. Bobi Ladawa accompanied him to his decisive final place of exile deal Morocco, and was at rulership bedside when he died liberate yourself from prostate cancer in September 1997.[5]

In 1998, Bobi Ladawa alongside permutation son, Nzanga, created the "Mobutu Foundation" in hopes of portion young men and women make out Africa reach their full potential.[6] She remains in exile, talented reportedly divides her time mid Rabat, where Mobutu is underground, Faro (in the Algarve, Portugal), Brussels, and Paris where she owns properties.[7]

References

  1. ^ abc"BOBI Ladawa"(PDF).

    Principal Intelligence Agency. 12 June 1989. Archived from the original(PDF) reassignment 16 November 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016.

  2. ^ abAkyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Gates, Henry Louis (2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP Army. pp. 238–9.

    ISBN .

  3. ^Schatzberg, Michael G. (1988). The Dialectics of Oppression snare Zaire. Indiana University Press. p. 120. ISBN .
  4. ^Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges (2002). The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A- People's History. Zed Books. p. 158. ISBN .
  5. ^Kisangani, Emizet Francois (2016).

    Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Nation of the Congo. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 439. ISBN .

  6. ^Al Kamen, "SUNDAY IN THE LOOP"., Washington Post 10 October 1998.
  7. ^Juompan-Yakam, Clarisse (20 September 2012). "RDC: veuves de Mobutu, mais pas trop" (in French).

    Jeune Afrique. Retrieved 15 November 2016.

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