Word: kasavubu
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...salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans must be content with local self-rule now, with a gradual transition to independence in 1964. His plans collapsed when Joseph Kasavubu's big Abako Party and other native groups announced a boycott of territorial elections, the first step in De Schrijver's plan for a slow evolution. As nervous Belgian officials sent wives and children off on "holidays"' in nearby Portuguese Angola, Abako's party organ Notre...
...editorial was intended not only to shock the Belgians but to keep African voters away from the polls, since in rural elections so far, voters have been giving heavy support to a large moderate party which Kasavubu contemptuously considers a stooge for the Belgians...
Stunned by the tactics of the Congo leaders, De Schrijver told Parliament in Brussels that independence might be possible in 1960, after all. giving in to Kasavubu's demands for direct national elections early in the year. Hours after De Schrijver made his new offer, the 29-year-old King himself announced he was flying immediately to the Congo despite the objections of his ministers...
...political parties has emerged in the Congo. New groups and splinter groups form with such rapidity that one Congolese leader found that the party he heads had split in two while he was flying from Leopoldville to Brussels last week. The most powerful Congolese politician is Joseph Kasavubu, 42, one of Leopoldville's ten native commune burgomasters. But Kasavubu's Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler who wants independence without...
...Hemelrijck may have concluded from the British example that locking up nationalists seldom does much good. But his gamble did have its dangers. In Léopoldville last week, Kasavubu's overeager followers, thinking that their leader had been invited to negotiate, were already laying plans for a seven-day celebration as soon as independence is announced. And Kasavubu himself, a deceptively mild-looking man who dreams of rebuilding the fabled 14th century Kingdom of the Congo, broadly hinted that his people would not wait forever. "I love visiting Belgium," he said. "But it must...