蒙博托(1930～1997年)
Mobutu Sese Seko，原名Joseph Mobutu。
萨伊（今刚果民主共和国）总统（1965～1997）。曾在比属刚果军队国民军中服务，又担任新闻记者，1960年在布鲁塞尔的独立谈判中加入卢蒙巴。刚果获得独立後，卡萨武布总统与卢蒙巴总理成立联合政府，任命蒙博托为国防部长。卡萨武布和卢蒙巴就冲伯控制下的加丹加省的脱离问题不和，蒙博托帮助卡萨武布取得了控制权。四年後，在卡萨武布总统与冲伯总理的权力斗争中，蒙博托在一次军事政变中推翻卡氏而自任总统。他建立起一党统治，镇压了几次预谋的政变。他使所有欧洲人的名字非洲化，把他自己的改为Mobutu Sese Seko（「全能的战士」）。在他压制下的政权没有刺激经济的增长；腐败、管理不善和玩忽职守导致了衰败，但蒙博托自己却是世界上积聚财富最多者之一。1997年被卡比拉推翻，死在摩洛哥的放逐中。
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1930～1997年
Mobutu Sese Seko
President of Zaire (now Congo), 1965-97. Mobutu served in the Belgian Congolese army and as a journalist before joining Patrice Lumumba in independence negotiations in Brussels in 1960. When independence was achieved, the coalition government of Pres. Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Lumumba put Mobutu in charge of defense. In the rift between Kasavubu and Lumumba over the secession of Katanga province under Moise Tshombe, Mobutu helped Kasavubu seize control. Four years later, in a power struggle between Pres. Kasavubu and Premier Tshombe, Mobutu removed Kasavubu in a coup and assumed the presidency. He established single-party rule and put down several attempted coups. He Africanized all European names, changing his own to Mobutu Sese Seko (“All-Powerful Warrior”). His repressive regime failed to spur economic growth; corruption, mismanagement, and neglect led to decline, while Mobutu himself amassed one of the largest personal fortunes in the world. He was overthrown by Laurent Kabila in 1997, and died in exile in Morocco.