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unusual facts about Gombe, Kinshasa



2000–01 Colchester United F.C. season

The virtuoso performance by the youngster from Kinshasa persuaded Newcastle boss Bobby Robson to part with a staggering £2.25m in September 2000.

Barly Baruti

Baruti is the co-founder of the Atelier de Création et de l'Initiation à l'Art (Creative Workshop for an Initiation to Art) to encourage talented youth in Kinshasa.

Bas-Congo

At the time of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the province was part of the greater province of Leopoldville, along with the city of Kinshasa and the districts of Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe.

Bauchi Emirate

A few years after the declaration of the Holy War, Yakubu and generals were able to conquer a very large area which came to be bounded in the North by Kano, Misau and Katagum Emirates, in the East by Borno and Gombe, in the South by Miri and Fambi and in the West by Zaria.

Bills

The Bills were a youth subculture active in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the late 1950s, basing much of their image and outlook on the cowboys of American Western movies.

Boseko Lokombo

Boseko "Bo" Lokombo (born October 15, 1990 in Kinshasa, Congo) is an American football linebacker for the Oregon Ducks.

Bralima Brewery

From 1950 to 1958 Bralima decided to keep on five breweries in DR Congo: Kinshasa, Boma, Bukavu, Kisangani and Mbandaka.

Chris Anyanwu

While being held in Gombe prison, she went partially blind; doctors warned that she was in danger of losing her sight completely if she failed to receive medical attention.

Colleen Opoku Amuaben

Dr. (Mrs.) Colleen Helena Opoku Amuaben is the General Overseer of Precious Seed Chapel International with fifteen branches in Central Africa – Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa and Almeria, Spain and Ghana, with the headquarters situated in Tema and is the founder of Save Them Young Mission Incorporated.

Congotronics series

These bands play what is referred to in the Congo as tradi-moderne music, and comprise musicians who left the bush in order to settle in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic Of The Congo.

Cupidesthes thyrsis

It is found in Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ubangi, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba).

Friedrich St. Florian

With Abraham he also won the first prize (ex equo) in the international architectural design competition for the "Cultural Center" in Leopoldville, Congo in 1959 and the third prize in the 1958 competition for the Pan Arabian University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ghislaine Dupont

In 2006, she was expelled by the Kinshasa government of Kabila between the first and second round of the presidential election.

Gladys Bokese

Starting his career at Kinshasha club AS Bandal he then joined Kinshasa giants Daring Club Motema Pembe with Mbala Mbuta Biscotte and Ngasanya Ilongo, where he would become a mainstay, winning the Linafoot thrice (2004, 2005, 2008) and the Coupe du Congo twice (2009, 2010) and captaining the team before leaving for Etoile sportive du Sahel from where he was quickly released.

Guy Kabeya Muya

As part of a workshop led by Thierry De Mey of Charleroi Danses he directed the 2007 documentary Cailloux (Pebbles) on informal economic enterprise in Kinshasa.

Henri Bowane

Bowane rose to prominence in the late 1940s Leopoldville African music scene, in which Cuban style music combined with Lingala and pan-Congolese styles.

Hugo van Lawick

They married on 28 March 1964 in Chelsea Old Church, London and lived in Tanzania for many years, both at Gombe and elsewhere on other research projects.

Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou

He was an assistant at the University of Lovanium of Léopoldville in Congo for some months, after which he went to Yale University, on a NATO-scholarship, where he obtained a PhD in economics under Richard Cooper.

James David Bevan

He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1982 and served in Kinshasa, Brussels, Paris, and Washington, as well as various posts in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Kabongo

Eugène Kabongo (born November 3, 1960 in Kinshasa), a former Congolese soccer player

Kazenga LuaLua

Born in Kinshasa, LuaLua moved to England shortly after his birth.

King Kulture: Stop the Traffic

The first, King Kulture, was released on January 31, 2012, to support the elementary school Ecole de la Borne in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kinshasa Kids

Set in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film focuses on a group of street kids, expelled from their homes after being accused of witchcraft, who form a hip hop group while a documentary crew films their efforts.

Kintambo

It is situated in the northwest of the city of Kinshasa, at the junction of Boulevard du 30 Juin (or more accurately its short extension, Avenue du Colonel Mondjiba), Avenue Kasa-Vubu and Route de Matadi.

Ligne Aérienne du Roi Albert

Starting from the capital Leopoldville, the route gradually extended upstream, first to Ngombe, later to Lisala and finally to Stanleyville.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Since leaving Haiti, this polyglot vagabond (he juggles seven languages) has lived in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Florence, and has traveled wherever his steps have taken him ... in the renewed echo of his native land.

Makoma

Nathalie Makoma, born on 24 February 1982 in Kinshasa became, a well-known Dutch-Congolese singer in her own right, .

Matadi Bridge

Completed in 1983, it has a main span of 520 m, crossing the Congo River, carrying the main highway between the capital Kinshasa and the Atlantic coast.

Mont Ngafula

It is in the hilly southern area of Kinshasa and is intersected by the Lukaya River valley in its southern portion.

Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The 2007 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships states that the Navy is organised into four commands, based at Matadi, near the coast; the capital Kinshasa, further up the Congo river; Kalemie, on Lake Tanganyika; and Goma, on Lake Kivu.

Ndjili

Ndjili, Kinshasa, also known as N'djili or N'Djili, a commune of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Négritude

Novelist Norman Mailer used the term to describe boxer George Foreman's physical and psychological presence in his book The Fight, a journalistic treatment of the legendary Ali vs. Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in October 1974.

Ngaliema

It stretches south towards Mont Ngaliema and along the main road linking Kinshasa and the city of Matadi in Bas-Congo.

Olivier Strelli

Strelli was born in 1946 in Kinshasa, Belgian Congo the son of Italian and Greek Jews from the island of Rhodes who had migrated there in the early 20th century.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

She subsequently served as Information Officer in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Public Affairs Officer in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as Cultural Affairs Officer in Bogotá, Colombia, as Counselor for Public Affairs in Abidjan, Cộte d'Ivoire, where she also served briefly as Acting DCM and then for several months as Chargé d'affaires.

Patrick Kabongo

Watshidimba "Patrick" Kabongo (born June 27, 1979 in Kinshasa, Zaire) is a professional Canadian football offensive lineman with the BC Lions.

Paulin J. Hountondji

After two years teaching in Besancon (France), in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Republic of the Congo), he accepted a post at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he still teaches as Professor of Philosophy.

Ricardo Lemvo

Lemvo grew up in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo and moved to the United States at age 15 to continue his education.

Stodacom

Stodacom is headquartered in Kampala, and with offices in Lagos, Kinshasa, Kigali, Lusaka, Cairo, Algiers, Pretoria, and Accra.

The Forgotten Children of Congo

From the remoteness of the Congo Basin, to the capital Kinshasa and the volatile Ituri Province in the East, this documentary focuses on the plight of the country's street children.

TPOK Jazz

The OK Jazz band was formed in 1956 in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), in what was at the time known as the Belgian Congo, later as Zaire and today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The band started to fall apart with the defection of Malage de Lugendo and Dizzy and Decca who returned to Kinshasa to pursue other opportunities.

ULK

Université Libre de Kinshasa, a private university in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Yamaltu/Deba

Its headquarters are in the town of Deba (or Deba Habe) to the southeast of the state capital Gombe.

Zebola

It originated among the Mongo people but is also practised among various ethnic groups in Kinshasa.


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