Fascinating people,

Fascinating Places.

G'd Aye and welcome to the Dan Mainwearing podcast.

This is where we talk to and about the famous and the infamous,

the celebrated and the obscure, the well-known and the undiscovered, interviews, articles and

discussion from around the globe. It's easier to go to go and engineer

yes I said in the city

and say the city

the court that they're going to tell you

to tell you that

that's great that the key President Muoo, I've been again. President Muuto, I have just had a warm and useful discussion,

and I am pleased to have been able to meet again

with President Muoo, who's been able to meet again with President Voodoo, who's been a faithful friend of the United

States for some 20 years.

The President and I took this opportunity to review the state of U-diarian relations and we found a large area of

agreement on the major points we discussed.

Mobutu Sessi Seco, once described by Ronald Reagan as a voice of good sense and goodwill,

was one of the most powerful and controversial figures of the post-colonial era in Africa.

From humble roots, his charisma and intelligence propelled him from obscurity to the power halls of Kinshasa.

In this episode, I examine his rise to prominence,

his bold steps and missteps,

and his eventual fall from grace. On the 14th of October 1930, a young woman who'd escaped to life in a chieftain's

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