For many African football fans of a certain generation, the name “Zaïre” evokes a vivid blend of images: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, perhaps the politician with the longest name on the ...

In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at National Book Award-winner William T. Vollman's A Table for Fortune, a four-part novel about the last half-century of American politics, war, and ...

Jeffrey Epstein and two other men act like it’s business as usual, seated at a table while a woman in a bikini crawls at their feet in a disturbing photo among the latest documents released by the U.S ...

In theory, both Patrice Lumumba and his ambitions were safely mewed up in Colonel Joseph Mobutu’s army camp. In fact, Lumumba was doing just about as well inside as out. For one thing, he had talked ...

The proud hunter mounts the busts of his prey, reminders of conquests on many an adventure, deep in the wilds. But no taxidermic deer, moose or antelope hang in his home. His walls are adored with ...

In Léopoldville one long, hot day last week, the simmering conflict between the U.N. Command and Congolese Military Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu finally reached a showdown. In the morning, as two ...

A view of the life of the DRC’s controversial former leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, is on display at the national museum in Kinshasa. Dems fall short of flipping deep-red House seat in surprisingly ...

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 ...

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) ...