MBUJI-MAYI

əmbooˈjē-mīˈyē, formerly Bakwangabäkwängˈgä, city (1984 pop. 486,235), capital of Kasai-Oriental province, S central Congo (Kinshasa), on the Sankuru River. A commercial center in Luba country, it handles most of the industrial diamonds produced in the Congo. After the Congo attained independence (1960) the city's population grew rapidly with the immigration of Luba people from other parts of the country. From 1960 to 1962 it was the capital of the secessionist Mining State of South Kasai.

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books on: Mbuji Mayi  - 19 results

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The Skull beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War
Book by Mark Huband; Westview Press, 2001
Subjects: Africa--Colonial Influence, Africa--Politics And Government--1960-, Africa--Relations--Foreign Countries
...Bakwanga Mining diamond mine at Mbuji-Mayi glittered, sparkled, and sipped the...his friends were never harassed. Mbuji-Mayi, capital of the province of East...prospectors and dealers had descended on Mbuji-Mayi. Where once the market stalls had...
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Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence, and Regional War
Book by Christian P. Scherrer; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Burundi--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Genocide--Rwanda, Low-Intensity Conflicts (Military Science)--Congo (Democratic Republic), Rwanda--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Violence--Congo (Democratic Republic)
...in spring 1999, led by Willy Masheki; other faction in alliance with Kabilas FAC and the Interahamwe wrongly spelled Mayi-Mayi Maji-Maji DRC: gangs and militia group among Nande, Tembo, Hunde, Nyanga, and other ethnic groups in North...
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Culture and Customs of the Congo
Book by Tshilemalema Mukenge; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social Life And Customs
...over forty-two persons killed in Mbuji-Mayi in 1991, over thirty victims during...Falls is in Eastern Kasai on the Mbuji-Mayi River. Minerals. The Congo is known...homeland, around the present city of Mbuji-Mayi. That was the beginning of the destruction...
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Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century
Book by Johan Pottier; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Rwanda--Ethnic Relations--History--20th Century, Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994
...gendarmes. These autochthonous groups, mostly through their Mayi-Mayi and Bangilima militias, 13 began to ethnically cleanse...be done, autochthonous guerilla soldiers, Bangilima and Mayi-Mayi, reappeared on the scene by early 1995. 46 These...
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Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1995
Book by Patrick Manning; Cambridge University Press, 1998
Subjects: Africa, French-Speaking Equatorial--History--1884-1960, Africa, French-Speaking Equatorial--History--1960-, Africa, French-Speaking West--History--1884-1960, Africa, French-Speaking West--History--1960-
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journal articles on: Mbuji Mayi  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Reconstructing the Congo
Journal article by Herbert F. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa)--History, Congo (Kinshasa)--Military policy, Postwar reconstruction--Military aspects, Postwar reconstruction--Political aspects
...over 18 years of age. Kananga and Mbuji-Mayi had an unemployment rate of 80 percent...Congo: Kinshasa, Kikwit, Lumumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi and Gemena. The first four of these...respondents in Kinshasa, 7 percent in Mbuji-Mayi, 15 percent in Lumumbashi and 16...
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Zaire at the End of a Reign
Journal article by Colette Braeckman; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1997
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...rebel forces poised to seize Kisangane in the North and Mbuji-Mayi in the south, there were reports that they were being...Rebels", The Guardian , 10 March 1997; a report from Mbuji-Mayi indicated both that most of the citys residents were...
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The Apocalyptic Interlude: Revealing Death in Kinshasa
Journal article by Filip de Boeck; African Studies Review, Vol. 48, 2005
Subjects: Bible, Blacks, Cities, Cultural anthropology, Death & dying, Eschatology, Kinshasa Congo, Living conditions, Popular music, Society, Urban areas
...Prayer A Saturday night in Kinshasa, May 2000: In the Mbuji-Mayi-Kananga, one of the bars of the moment, beyond a sign...Bathed in a glow of yellow, red, and blue lights, the Mbuji-Mayi-Kananga occupies the three levels of a building along...
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'La Crise': Lexicon and Ethos of the Second Economy in Lubumbashi
Journal article by Pierre Petit, Georges Mulumbwa Mutambwa; Africa, Vol. 75, 2005
Subjects: Economic development--Congo (Kinshasa), Economic development--Evaluation, Government legitimacy--Analysis, Legitimacy of governments--Analysis, Lubumbashi, Congo (Kinshasa)--Economic aspects, Lubumbashi, Congo (Kinshasa)--Political aspects
...on sight (De Boeck 2003: 183-84). The term is also used in Eastern Kasai, in the small diamond exploitations close to Mbuji-Mayi. Here, choqueurs designates the workers who are hired on a single-day basis to fill bags with diamantine gravel after...
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Mugabe's Malaise: Stifling Africa's Development
Journal article by Leah Litman; Harvard International Review, Vol. 24, 2003
Subjects: Mugabe, Robert--Economic policy, Mugabe, Robert--Political activity
...such troops threatens to destabilize central Africa both politically and economically. The areas where Doube remains, Mbuji Mayi and Lubumbashi, are rich in diamonds and copper, resources essential for the revival of the Congolese economy. Historically...


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magazine articles on: Mbuji Mayi  - 17 results

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Inside Kabila's Kingdom
Magazine article by Francois Misser; African Business, May 1997
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa)--Political aspects, Kabila, Laurent--Political activity, National liberation movements
...Liberation of Congo-Zaire was sweeping all before it in eastern Zaire. It had taken the important diamond mining town of Mbuji-Mayi and was poised to capture Lubumbashi. But what is economic life like in the liberated areas? We sent our special correspondent...
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Kabila Turns Diamonds to Dust
Magazine article by Francois Misser; African Business, July 2000
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa), Diamond industry--Finance, Diamond mining, Diamonds, Kabila, Laurent--Economic policy, Miniere de Bakwanga--Finance, Mining industry--Finance
...about to take the diamond-capital Mbuji-Mayi, Mobutus soldiers stole as many of...to carry out extension work on the Mbuji-Mayi airstrip. As a result, MIBA was deprived...provide electricity to the huge city of Mbuji-Mayi (1.2m inhabitants) in order to make...
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Hot Rock Saga
Magazine article by Francois Misser; African Business, January 2001
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa)--Natural resources, Diamond industry--Finance, Diamond mining, Diamonds, Kasanji, Alphonse Ngoyi--Finance, Mining industry--Finance
...dubbed, safely packed away, took the first plane out of Mbuji-Mayi and headed for Kinshasha. Gem worth $13.5m Experts...by diamond dealers and civil society organisations in Mbuji-Mayi. At issue was the right of citizens to own products purchased...
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Where Mobutu's Millions Go
Magazine article by Jonathan Kwitny; The Nation, Vol. 238, May 19, 1984
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa) foreign relations--United States, Congo (Kinshasa)--Economic aspects, External debts, Mobutu Sese Seko--Economic policy, United States, United States foreign relations--Congo (Kinshasa)
...of diamond scavengers just outside Mbuji-Mayi, the diamond center of Eastern Kasai...previously unreported massacre near Mbuji-Mayi two weeks earlier. Shortly after...house arrest had it not been for the Mbuji-Mayi massacre. When Amnesty International...
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Zaire: How to Do Business in Africa's "Wild West" State
Magazine article by Francois Misser; African Business, February 1996
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa), Foreign investments
...economy beats in Eastern Kasai, at Mbuji-Mayi, the "diamond capital" and now Zaires...the price of a bag of maize on the Mbuji-Mayi market has not moved for two years...customers and future industries in Mbuji-Mayi. Other projects include poultry and...
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newspaper articles on: Mbuji Mayi  - 7 results

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Election Tests Democracy in Africa
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 30, 2006
...country because of shootings. In the central city of Mbuji Mayi, opposition militants attacked a truck carrying voting...was set on fire yesterday by opposition supporters in Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Todays elections...
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Tutsi Mutiny in Congo Shatters Kabila's Coalition: Clinton's Concept of 'New Africa' Is Put in Jeopardy
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, August 6, 1998
Subjects: Congo, Kabila, Laurent
...others deeper into Zaire, then began moving across the vast Congolese landscape northward to Kisangani, southwest to Mbuji Mayi, then to mineral-rich Kasai and Shaba to the south. Angolan troops and supplies were flown from southwest Africa halfway...
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Congo Peace Talks Facing Daunting Obstacles: Rwanda's Dread of New Genocide Drives Negotiation
Newspaper article by Ross Herbert; The Washington Times, July 1, 1999
Subjects: Congo, Rwanda
...backers control roughly half of Congo, with the front lines now about 6 miles from the strategic diamond-mining town of Mbuji Mayi in south-central Congo. A WAR NOBODY CAN AFFORD Practicality, both diplomatic and economic, provided the driving...
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U.S. Overlooks Democratic Option in Zaire
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, April 10, 1997
Subjects: Mobutu Sese Seko
...opposition, and its still very popular throughout the country, particularly in Kinshasa and in Kasai, which includes the Mbuji-Mayi. Q: Is it troubling to you that Tshisekedi appears to be playing the politics of confrontation that hes played from...
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U.N. Force Delayed by Mutual Distrust
Newspaper article by Betsy Pisik; The Washington Times, February 26, 2000
Subjects: Congo, United Nations
...repeatedly has denied U.N. efforts to survey the town of Mbandaka and flatly refuses to permit international troops in Mbuji-Mayi, which is located in a diamond-producing area. The United Nations has chosen both areas to deploy. "Weve never even...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mbuji Mayi  - 3 results

 
 
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Mbuji-Mayi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MBUJI-MAYI mboo je-mi ye, formerly Bakwanga bakwang ga, city (1984 pop. 486,235), capital of Kasai-Oriental province, S central Congo...
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Bakwanga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAKWANGA Congo (Kinshasa): see Mbuji-Mayi . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kalemie , Kamina , Kananga , Kisangani , Kolwezi , Likasi , Lubumbashi , Matadi , Mbandaka , and Mbuji-Mayi . The population of Congo comprises approximately 200 ethnic groups, the great majority of whom speak one of the Bantu...


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