Benutzer:Shi Annan/Jean Bolikango

Jean Bolikango or Bolikango Akpolokaka Gbukulu Nzete Nzube (4 February 1909 – 17 February 1982) was a Congolese educator, writer, and conservative politician. He served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo), in September 1960 and from February to August 1962. Enjoying substantial popularity among the Bangala people, he headed the Parti de l'Unité Nationale and worked as a key opposition member in Parliament in the early 1960s.

Bolikango began his career in the Belgian Congo as a teacher in Catholic schools, and became a prominent member of Congolese society as the leader of a cultural association. He wrote an award-winning novel and worked as a journalist before turning to politics in the late 1950s. Though he held a top communications post in the colonial administration, he became a leader in the push for independence, making him one of the "fathers of independence" in the Congo. The Republic of the Congo became independent in 1960 and Bolikango attempted to organise a national political base that would support his bid for a prestigious office in the new government. He succeeded in establishing the Parti de l'Unité Nationale and promoted both a united Congo and strong ties with Belgium. Older than most of his contemporaries and commanding significant respect, especially among his Bangala peers, he was seen as the Congo's "elder statesman". Regardless, his attempts to secure a position in the government failed and he became a leading member of the opposition in Parliament.

As the country became embroiled in a domestic crisis, the first government was dislodged and succeeded by several different administrations. Bolikango served as Deputy Prime Minister in one of the new governments before a partial state of stability was reestablished in 1961. He mediated between warring factions in the Congo and briefly served once again as Deputy Prime Minister in 1962 before returning to the parliamentary opposition. After Joseph-Désiré Mobutu took power in 1965, Bolikango became a minister in his government. Mobutu soon dismissed him but appointed him to the political bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution. Bolikango left the bureau in 1970. He left Parliament in 1975 and died seven years later. His grandson created the Jean Bolikango Foundation in his memory to promote social progress. The President of the Congo posthumously awarded Bolikango a medal in 2005 for his long career in public service.

Early life

Jean Bolikango was born in Léopoldville, Belgian Congo, on 4 February 1909Vorlage:Sfn to a Bangala family from Équateur Province.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Efn In 1917 he enrolled in St. Joseph's Institute, graduating in December 1925 after six years of primary school, two years of pedagogical studies, and one year of stenography and typing courses.Vorlage:Sfn He became a licensed primary school teacher the following year.Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango taught at Scheutist schoolsVorlage:Sfn and finally St. Joseph's Institute until 1958. He instructed a total of 1,300 students,Vorlage:Sfn including future Prime Minister Joseph Iléo, future Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula, future Minister of Finance Arthur Pinzi, future Minister of Social Affairs Jacques Massa,Vorlage:Sfn future dramatist Albert Mongita, and future Catholic Cardinal Joseph Malula.Vorlage:Sfn In 1946 he became the president of the Association des Anciens élèves des pères de ScheutVorlage:Efn (ADAPÉS), a position he held until his death.Vorlage:Sfn

That year Bolikango, as the leader of the capital évolués, worked closely with missionary Raphaël de la Kethulle de Ryhove to establish the Union des Interets Sociaux Congolais (UNISCO), a cultural society for leaders of elite Congolese associations.Vorlage:Sfn He then became its vice president.Vorlage:Sfn The organisation was viewed favorably by the colonial administration for its attachment to Belgian social ideals, though it would later become a forum for revolutionary politics.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn In 1954 Bolikango founded and, for a time, served as general chairman of the Liboka Lya Bangala, the first Bangala ethnic association, based in Léopoldville.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn By 1957 it encompassed 48 affiliated tribal organisations and had 50,000 members.Vorlage:Sfn He authored a novel in Lingala entitled Mondjeni-Mobé : Le Hardi, which won a consolation prize for creative writing from the Conference on African Studies at the International Fair in Ghent in 1949.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:SfnVorlage:SfnVorlage:Efn Bolikango soon befriended Joseph Kasa-Vubu and sponsored his election as secretary-general of ADAPÉS in order to bring him into UNISCO, thereby furthering the latter's political standing.Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango eventually married a woman named Claire.Vorlage:Sfn He also obtained a carte de mérite civiqueVorlage:Efn from the Belgian administration and served on the commission responsible for its assignment to deserving Congolese.Vorlage:Sfn

Bolikango first went abroad when he attended Kethulle de Ryhove's funeral in Belgium in 1956. During his return trip he stopped in Paris to meet with African members of the French Parliament.Vorlage:Sfn That year he met with a handful of his former students and other Congolese leaders in his home. Together they drafted the first Congolese political manifesto, Manifeste de Conscience Africaine.Vorlage:Sfn In 1958 he resigned from his teaching post and went to Brussels to represent Catholic education at the Expo 58 event, holding responsibility for public relations at the Missions Pavilion. This led him to study press, radio, television, film, and mass education techniques at the Office of Information and Public Relations for the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. In August 1959 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Information in the office,Vorlage:Sfn making him one of only two Congolese to ever hold a second grade civil servant position in the Belgian colonial administration.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Efn In that capacity he initiated a comparative study of information services across Sub-Saharan Africa, compiled details on Congolese politicians, gave numerous speeches, and helped design Bantu language courses at the University of Ghent.Vorlage:Sfn He regularly wrote for the Catholic newspaper La Croix du Congo. In 1960 Bolikango started his own newspaper, La Nation Congalaise.Vorlage:Sfn

Political career

Bolikango was older than most of his political contemporariesVorlage:Sfn and was regarded as the Congo's "elder statesman".Vorlage:Sfn He was labeled conservative and "pro-Belgian".Vorlage:Sfn He considered the Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor to be a principle influence on his beliefs. He also admired Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire for his "wisdom and calmness".Vorlage:Sfn Like other members of the original Congolese establishment, Bolikango sought a gradual decolonisation process during which the Belgian authorities were to be amicably negotiated with.Vorlage:Sfn He believed the Congo should be united in a broad fashionVorlage:Efn and supported the formation of a union of African states.Vorlage:Sfn

Early organisation

Bolikango (left) meeting with politicians in Bonn, Germany in February 1960

In 1953 Bolikango became a substitute member of the Conseil de la province de Léopoldville.Vorlage:Efn He served in the post for three years.Vorlage:Sfn In December 1957 he unsuccessfully entered Léopoldville's first municipal elections.Vorlage:Sfn The Bangala as a whole did not do well in the campaign; their only form of organisation was Bolikango's Liboka Lya Bangala, an association with little cohesion.Vorlage:Sfn Following the electoral defeats, Bolikango decided to organise the Interfédérale,Vorlage:Efn a federation among various regional and ethnic groups of the northern Congo that became the basis of his new Parti de l'Unité Congolaise.Vorlage:Efn Almost immediately after its creation the party collapsed due to ethnic differences.Vorlage:Sfn In April 1959 Patrice Lumumba asked Bolikango to become director of his nationalist political party, the Mouvement National CongolaisVorlage:Efn (MNC). Bolikango never committed to a decision.Vorlage:Sfn In the autumn of 1959 the Interfédérale became a part of the Parti National du ProgrèsVorlage:Efn (PNP).Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango did not follow them, instead founding the Front de l'Unite BangalaVorlage:Efn (FUB), a political party representing the Bangala people of the northeastern Congo.Vorlage:Sfn Among them he was a popular figure; Bangala nicknames for him included "the Sage" and even "Moses".Vorlage:Sfn He hoped that by promoting the idea of a grande ethnie bangalaVorlage:Efn he could enhance his political prospects.Vorlage:Sfn The Bangala were only unified as a political faction in the capital, so he began to look elsewhere for support.Vorlage:Sfn He was also a cofounder of the short-lived Mouvement pour le Progres National Congolais,Vorlage:Efn a party formed by attendees of the Brussels exposition.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn

Bolikango soon thereafter created the Association des Ressortisants du Haut-CongoVorlage:Efn (ASSORECO).Vorlage:Sfn From 20 January to 20 February 1960 Bolikango attended the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference in Brussels to discuss the Congo's future under Belgian rule, serving as the leading delegate for ASSORECO.Vorlage:Sfn He was made a member of the conference's bureau.Vorlage:Sfn During the discussions he made an unexpectedly sharp denunciation of Belgian propaganda.Vorlage:Sfn He also acted as the spokesperson for the Front Common,Vorlage:Efn the political umbrella for all the Congolese delegations.Vorlage:Sfn In that capacity on 27 January he publicly revealed that independence would be granted to the Congolese on 30 June.Vorlage:Sfn Following the conference he traveled with a colleague to Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany to meet with local politicians.Vorlage:Sfn

Attempts at consolidation

To consolidate his political power in Équateur Province, Bolikango summoned a congress to Lisala that lasted from 24 March to 3 April. Like his own party, the other political groups of Équateur lacked the necessary support to make significant gains in the upcoming independent elections. Bolikango was eager to win a prominent government office and aimed to form a broad coalition with the Ngombe, Mongo, and Ngwaka peoples and other minorities in the province to achieve it. This could be best accomplished, in his view, through an alliance of his own groups, the FUB and ASSORECO, with UNIMO, FEDUNEC, UNILAC, and local chiefs who had not already put their support behind the PNP.Vorlage:Sfn

In his opening address at the congress, Bolikango said that while "parties based on ethnic foundations" made the first step toward a unified Congo, the "national interest" of the country rested upon a "unity of will". He enumerated that this "does not mean that each ethnic group must abandon its own characteristics, but that through these differences one must endeavour to form a harmonious ensemble."Vorlage:Sfn The UNIMO leadership was skeptical of Bolikango's unified outlook for the Congo and remained independent, although he secured the support of the Ngombe, some of the Ngwaka and Bangala, and chiefs from the Lisala, Bongandanga, and Bumba regions.Vorlage:Sfn The FUB made an alliance with ASSORECO and FEDUNEC, transforming into the Parti de l'Unité NationaleVorlage:Efn (PUNA).Vorlage:Sfn In spite of its attempts to garner more national appeal, the new party retained its regional bias and failed to amass substantial outside support, costing Bolikango much of his backing in Léopoldville.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn Still, this reformed political base allowed him to win a position as a national deputy from the Mongala district in the May 1960 national election by 15,000 votes.Vorlage:Sfn He used his position as the president of PUNA to mediate a dispute between the party and minority alliances in Équateur and create a provincial coalition government.Vorlage:Sfn

Meanwhile, the MNC sharply criticised Bolikango's connections with the Belgians, undermining his reputation in both Équateur and the capital.Vorlage:Sfn The Alliance des BakongoVorlage:Efn (ABAKO) also despised him due to his support for Catholic missions and the perception that he was "pro-white".Vorlage:Sfn He spent the month of May touring the Congo, claiming that he had the support of other party leaders in an alliance against Lumumba and the MNC. This opposition alliance was soon announced as the Cartel d'Union Nationale.Vorlage:Sfn As Lumumba was assembling his proposed cabinet, the Chamber of Deputies convened on 21 June to elect its officers. Bolikango made a bid to be President of the Chamber, but lost the vote to the MNC candidate, Joseph Kasongo, 74 to 58.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:SfnVorlage:Efn The subsequent election of the Senate's officers also indicated an MNC advantage. Realising that Lumumba's bloc controlled Parliament, several members of the Cartel became eager to negotiate for a coalition government so they could share power, especially Bolikango,Vorlage:Sfn who hoped to secure the position of Defence Minister. This did not occur,Vorlage:Sfn but he did exact a written pledge from Lumumba of support for his bid to become the first President of the Republic of the Congo in exchange for his party's backing of Lumumba's government.Vorlage:Sfn

Bolikango faced his former protégé, Joseph Kasa-Vubu of ABAKO, in the parliamentary vote for the presidency. Lumumba realised that the Belgians would only accept him as Prime Minister if Kasa-Vubu held office, so he switched allegiances, privately dismissing Bolikango as a "pawn of Belgium and a protégé of the Catholics", and secretly endorsing Kasa-Vubu. Bolikango lost the parliamentary vote 159 to 43Vorlage:Sfn and was left infuriated.Vorlage:Sfn In addition to Lumumba's duplicity, Bolikango also suffered in the election due to his recent association with the colonial administration and his breaking with the Cartel to negotiate with Lumumba.Vorlage:Sfn According to his friend, Thomas Kanza, the loss was "the most bitter failure in his entire career."Vorlage:Sfn He then helped organise an anti-MNC coalition in Parliament.Vorlage:Sfn

Congo Crisis

During the Congo Crisis that followed Congolese independence, Bolikango acted as a United States Central Intelligence Agency informant.Vorlage:Sfn Early in the crisis he accused Prime Minister Lumumba of ignoring opposition groups and deliberately stifling dissent;Vorlage:Sfn on 3 August he officially denounced Lumumba's policies. Five days later he announced that he would support the formation of a separate republic in Équateur Province.Vorlage:Sfn In return, Lumumba accused him of plotting the secession of the region.Vorlage:Sfn On 1 September Bolikango was arrested in Gemena on Lumumba's orders, ostensibly for committing secessionist activities and planning assassinations of both Lumumba and Kasa-Vubu, and brought to the capital.Vorlage:Efn This led to demonstrations by his supporters throughout the city on the following day.Vorlage:Sfn Soon thereafter, President Kasa-Vubu dismissed Lumumba from office and replaced him with Joseph Iléo.Vorlage:Sfn Sympathetic soldiers released Bolikango on 6 September.Vorlage:Sfn During Iléo's brief first term from 13 September to 20 September Bolikango served as Minister of Information and Minister of Defence.Vorlage:Sfn In December he attended a Francophone-African conference in Brazzaville as part of a Congolese government delegation.Vorlage:Sfn

During Iléo's second term from 9 February until 1 August 1961 Bolikango held the post of Deputy Prime Minister.Vorlage:Sfn By then he felt threatened by the sudden collapse of political unity in the Congo and supported the government's efforts at re-centralisation.Vorlage:Sfn He participated in the Tananarive and Coquilhatville conferences of March and April 1961, representing Équateur and Ubangi, respectively, to seek a compromise on constitutional issues.Vorlage:Sfn Throughout June he worked alongside Cyrille Adoula and Marcel Lihau to negotiate a settlement between the central government and a rival Free Republic of the Congo in the eastern portion of the country.Vorlage:Sfn This culminated in a conference in July that resulted in the election of Adoula as Prime Minister. Bolikango was certain that he would also be elected as President but Kasa-Vubu retained the office.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Efn

After the conference Bolikango helped to mediate negotiations between Adoula and secessionist figure Moïse Tshombe, leader of the breakaway State of Katanga.Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango claimed that he alone could resolve the situation by sitting "Bantu fashion with legs out stretched" around a table with Tshombe.Vorlage:Sfn He scheduled a political conference to take place in Stanleyville to create a new political party with Antoine Gizenga with the intent of isolating Kasa-Vubu and ABAKO in Parliament so he could remove the former from the presidency and replace him. The plans dissolved after Gizenga was arrested in January 1962.Vorlage:Sfn On 13 February Bolikango was appointed Deputy Prime Minister.Vorlage:Sfn On 12 July Adoula downsized his government and dismissed him from his post.Vorlage:Sfn He then re-entered the parliamentary opposition and, by August, was working with Rémy Mwamba and Christophe Gbenye (both ex-ministers also dismissed from Adoula's government) to try and secure support to dislodge Adoula. Bolikango was the opposition's favorite to replace the Prime Minister.Vorlage:Sfn In 1963 following the defeat of Katanga, he managed to organise an opposition coalition to Adoula's government, consisting of ABAKO, leftist followers of Lumumba (by then killed) and Gizenga, and Tshombe's Confédération des associations tribales du KatangaVorlage:Efn (CONAKAT).Vorlage:Sfn He also foiled an attempt by one of Adoula's ministers to establish a pro-government party in Équateur.Vorlage:Sfn He attempted to win the office of Équateur Provincial President, but was defeated.Vorlage:Sfn In the campaign the opposing faction of Laurent Eketebi allied itself with the Budja tribal minority in the provincial assembly, destroying the concept of a unified Bangala tribe that Bolikango had used to elevate his social and political standing.Vorlage:Sfn In the 1965 elections he was reelected to a second term in the Chamber of Deputies on a PUNA–Convention Nationale CongolaiseVorlage:Efn (CONACO) ticket.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn He received 53,083 preferential votes, making him the most popular Congolese representative of his respective constituency, second only to Tshombe in southern Katanga.Vorlage:Sfn

Mobutu regime

Following Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's seizure of power in November 1965, Bolikango became the Minister of Public Works. On 4 April 1966 Mobutu dismissed Bolikango from his post, ostensibly for "lack of discipline and refusing to follow received orders."Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn This firing was the first of many Mobutu would use to pressure established Congolese politicians, though Bolikango was not left disadvantaged for long;Vorlage:Sfn on 4 July 1968 he was appointed to the political bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la RévolutionVorlage:Efn (MPR), the state party, serving there until 16 December 1970.Vorlage:Sfn From 1970 until 1975 he served a final term in Parliament, representing the Kinshasa district.Vorlage:Sfn

In his later life Bolikango served as managing director of the Sogenco construction company and general delegate to the Société zaïroise de Matériaux and STK parastatals.Vorlage:Sfn During the same time he made frequent trips to Lisala, where he remained a popular figure. Rumors surfaced in the capital that Bolikango was planning to use his regional political esteem for subversive purposes, so the Mobutu regime closely monitored his activities.Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango joined the MPR's central committee in September 1980. He died from an illness on 17 February 1982 in Liège, Belgium.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Efn

Legacy

Historian Ludo De Witte wrote of Bolikango as a "neo-colonial" politician who was "short-sighted and power-crazy".Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango is remembered in the Congo as one of the "fathers of independence".Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn The Fondation Jean BolikangoVorlage:Efn was created by Bolikango's grandson in his memory. The foundation focuses on supporting social progress and education.Vorlage:Sfn In 2005 President Joseph Kabila posthumously awarded Bolikango a medal for dedication to civil service.Vorlage:Sfn Bolikango was also a Commander of the National Order of the Leopard, member of the Royal Order of the Lion, and a recipient of the Benemerenti medal (1950), Medaille Commémorative du Voyage royalVorlage:Efn (1955), gold medal of the Association Royale Sportive Congolaise,Vorlage:Efn and bronze and silver medals for other acts of public service.Vorlage:Sfn On 22 February 2007 a ceremony was held in Équateur to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his death.Vorlage:Sfn

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