Alliance of Bakongo

ABAKO or the Alliance of Bakongo is a Political party of the Democratic republic of Congo officially created the June 26th 1959. The ethnic party defends the interests of the Bakongo.

Alliance had been composed earlier in the same year under the name of Association of Bakongo . In fact it had a former existence in the form of religious organization created in 1950 by Edmond Nzeza Nlandu and was transformed into political training in the middle of the years 1950. She played a driving role in the fight for the independence of the Belgian Congo. The January 4th 1959, the prohibition of a meeting of this party started a riot followed by a massacre to Léopoldville. The January 11th 1959 association was officially dissolved.

The president of the ABAKO, Joseph Kasa-Vubu will be the first president of independent Congo. Daniel Kanza, the Vice-president of the ABAKO, will become the First burgomaster of Kinshasa while his/her son, Thomas Kanza, first graduate Congolese academic in Belgium, will be member of the Gouvernement Lumumba.

The ABAKO is dissolved in 1966 when an authoritarian regime of the presidential type, resting on a sole party, the Popular movement of the Revolution (MPR), is founded.

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The initials ABAKO are used today by the Alliance of the Builders of Kongo, political party.

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