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Timeline of Kisangani

Summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Prior to 20th century edit

20th century edit

21st century edit

  • 2002 - 14–15 May: Massacre.[1]
  • 2003 - August: Arrival via Congo river of "first commercial delivery from the capital since the fighting began in 1998."[21]
  • 2007 - Médard Autsai Asenga becomes provincial governor.[22]
  • 2008 - Guy Shilton Baendo Tofuli becomes mayor.[23]
  • 2010 - National military Camp Base in operation (approximate date).[chronology citation needed]
  • 2011 - 8 July: Airplane crash occurs at Bangoka International Airport.
  • 2013 - Jean Bamanisa Saïdi becomes provincial governor.[22]
  • 2015 - City becomes seat of Tshopo province (officially created in 2006).
  • 2016 - Jean Ilongo Tokole [fr] becomes governor of Tshopo province.[24]
  • 2017 - Constant Lomata becomes governor of Tshopo province.[25]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Omasombo 2005.
  2. ^ "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Chronology of Catholic Dioceses. Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  3. ^ MacGaffey 1987.
  4. ^ "Liste des gouverneurs de la Province Orientale". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Malfeyt" (PDF), Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (in French), Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1952  
  6. ^ L'Illustration Congolaise (in French), Brussels, 1931, OCLC 47785474{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ a b c d Gwillim Law (1999). "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. US: McFarland & Company. pp. 92–94. ISBN 0786407298.
  8. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161. Stanleyville
  9. ^ "Thriving Stanleyville Now Depressed Kisangani", New York Times, 28 June 1970
  10. ^ "28 More White Hostages Found Slain in Stanleyville", New York Times, 28 November 1964
  11. ^ a b Emizet Francois Kisangani (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442273160.
  12. ^ "R.D. Congo: Kisangani". Petit Futé (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  13. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1980. New York. pp. 225–252.
  14. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.
  15. ^ a b French 1997.
  16. ^ a b Kenneth B. Noble (18 March 1993), "Kisangani Journal; With Artery Severed, Heart of Africa Grows Still", New York Times
  17. ^ Association pour le Developpement de l'Information Environmentale, 2003
  18. ^ "Zaire Rebels Begin Attack On Key City of Kisangani", New York Times, 15 March 1997
  19. ^ James C. McKinley Jr. (17 March 1997), "A Fallen City, Seeking Peace, Greets Rebels", New York Times
  20. ^ "Congo's hidden war", The Economist, London, 15 June 2000
  21. ^ "A mend in the river", The Economist, London, 7 August 2003
  22. ^ a b "RDC: le réveil de Kisangani, la belle endormie", Jeune Afrique (in French), 23 December 2014
  23. ^ "Liste des maires de la ville depuis 1960". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  24. ^ "RDC: liste de nouveaux gouverneurs de province élus", Radiookapi.net (in French), 26 March 2016
  25. ^ "Constant Lomata nouveau gouverneur de la Tshopo", Radiookapi.net (in French), 29 August 2017
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography edit

in English
  • Valdo Pons (1969). Stanleyville: An African Urban Community under Belgian Administration. Oxford University Press, for International African Institute. ISBN 9780197241769.
  • V. S. Naipaul (1979). A Bend in the River. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-50573-5. (Novel set in fictional town similar to Kisangani)
  • Janet MacGaffey (1987). Entrepreneurs and Parasites: The Struggle for Indigenous Capitalism in Zaïre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33533-1. (Case study of Kisangani)
  • Howard W. French (14 February 1997), "Kisangani Journal: An Outpost Whose Futures Have Come and Gone", New York Times
  • Jean Tshonda Omasombo (2002). "Kisangani and the curve of destiny". In Okwui Enwezor (ed.). Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-9090-1. Documenta11
  • Jean Omasombo (2005). "Kisangani: A City at its Lowest Ebb". In Abdoumaliq Simone; Abdelghani Abouhani (eds.). Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City. London: Zed Books. ISBN 1842775936.
in French
  • "Stanleyville", L'État indépendant du Congo: documents sur le pays et ses habitants, Annales du Musée du Congo (in French), Brussels, 1904, hdl:2027/pst.000022332363 – via HathiTrust{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Élisabethville-Stanleyville par la route (Touring-Club du Congo belge, Léopoldville, 31 mars 1941, pp. 25–26 ; 30 avril 1941, pp. 46–47).
  • Singhitini F. M. de Thier(?) (1963), La Stanleyville musulmane [Muslim Stanleyville], Correspondance d'Orient (in French), Brussels: Centre pour l'Etude du Problème du Monde musulman contemporain
  • Benoît Verhaegen, ed. (1975). Kisangani 1876-1976. Histoire d'une ville (in French). Kinshasa: Presses Universitaires du Zaïre. OCLC 869660596.
  • Bogumil Jewsiecki (1978). "Histoire économique d'une ville coloniale Kisangani: 1877-1960". Les cahiers du CEDAF (in French) (5). Brussels: Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Africaines. ISSN 0250-1619.
  • Léon de Saint Moulin (2010). "Kisangani". Villes et organisation de l'espace en République Démocratique du Congo (in French). L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-25787-0.
  • Bérengère Piret (2014), Les cent mille briques. La prison et les détenus de Stanleyville [Hundred thousand bricks: the prison and inmates of Stanleyville] (in French), Lille: Centre d'histoire judiciaire, ISBN 978-2-910114-26-8

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Images edit

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    Politician Moïse Tshombe visits Stanleyville, 1964
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    Hydroelectric dam on Tshopo river, built in 1954-1955 (photo 2006)
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    Map of Kisangani, 1997
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    Military training at Camp Base, Kisangani, 2010

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