Word: rean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOBUTU'S PROGRAM OF ZAÏREAN "AUTHENTICITY." Authenticity is very simple. It is what you are. It is what I am. It has nothing to do with culture. It is an attitude. The key is not to return to the past but to recover it. We take from our history what is valid for the present. Our women don't wear pants, they don't wear wigs, they don't wear lipstick. Because of this return to authenticity we have a huge culture we can draw from. We still have much "decolonizing...
...campaign is the large and pervasive Roman Catholic Church, 9.6 million strong. Catholicism has temporal as well as spiritual power (besides the schools, priests and nuns run many hospitals and social services) and it is the only force in the nation tied to a non-Zaïrean authority, the Papacy. Catholic independence clashes with Mobutu's effort to unify the nation by cultivating a semi-religious devotion to himself and his government. Some observers trace his fear of Catholic social influence to 1970, when the high-living Mobutu attended a Mass at which Joseph Cardinal Malula preached that...