Ange Diawara (1941 – April 1973) was a Congolese politician and military figure.[1] He orchestrated the 1972 coup attempt and subsequently led the M 22 rebel movement until his capture and execution.[2]

The son of a chief, Diawara was born in Sibiti to a Congolese mother and a Congolese father with Malian origins. He received higher education in Cuba and the Soviet Union.[3] When the National Revolutionary Council (CNR) was established in August 1968, Diawara became the First Vice-President of the CNR Executive Board in charge of Defense and Security; he was subsequently a founding member of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) in December 1969 and became Secretary of the CNR Executive Board in charge of Defense and Security. He was included on the PCT Political Bureau, formed on December 31, 1969, as First Political Commissar to the Army,[1] and was a government minister. He was the Minister of Equipment, Agriculture, Water Affairs, and Forestry, and on June 13, 1971, he was additionally assigned the Development portfolio.[4] When the PCT Political Bureau was reduced to five members in December 1971, Diawara remained a member of the Bureau and was placed in charge of the Permanent Commission of the Army.[1]

Diawara was a prominent figurehead of the left wing of the PCT which decried the leadership's "tribalization, embourgeoisement and bureaucratization". He has been described as a "Maoist-Guevarist".[2] By 1970, he managed to acquire the support of the Mobutu regime in Zaire to foment an insurrection in Goma Tsé-Tsé.[2] Along with other leftist members of the PCT's Bureau, such as Claude-Ernest Ndalla and Jean-Baptiste Ikoko,[5] he orchestrated a failed coup d'état against President Ngouabi on 22 February 1972. After more than a year of evading capture,[6] Diawara was captured in Kinshasa and secretly extradited by the Zairese authorities in April 1973. He was tortured and executed along with other conspirators shortly afterwards.[2][7] The bodies of Diawara and Ikoko were publicly exhibited in the Stade de la Révolution.[8][9]

Diawara was married to Adélaïde Mougany.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Les voies du politique au Congo: essai de sociologie historique (1997), Karthala Editions, pages 145, 149, 193, and 429.
  2. ^ a b c d Massema, Albert Roger (2005). Crimes de sang et pouvoir au Congo Brazzaville : Les assassinats de Lazare Matsokota, Joseph Pouabou, Anselme Massouémé, Ange Diawara, Marien Ngouabi et Pierre Anga. Paris: L'Harmattan. p. 73-74, 82-87. ISBN 9782747589536.
  3. ^ A. Wiseman, John (1991). Political leaders in Black Africa: a biographical dictionary of the major politicians since independence. E. Elgar. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-852-78047-0.
  4. ^ "Jul 1971 - Reorganization of Council of State. - Communist Chinese Aid. - Alleged Anti-Government Plots", Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume 17, July, 1971 Congo, page 24,724.
  5. ^ Eboko, Marc (2021). "Introduction". L'histoire du Parti Congolais du Travail. Brazzaville: Éditions Congo-Brazzaville Information. ISBN 9798498387871.
  6. ^ Clark, John Frank; Samuel Decalo (2012). Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo (Fourth Edition). Scarecrow Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-8108-4919-8.
  7. ^ Picard, Maurin (2023). "Mobutu, allié stratégique de la France au coeur de l'Afrique". In Borrel, Thomas; Boukari-Yabara, Amzat; Collombat, Benoît; Deltombe, Thomas (eds.). Une histoire de la Françafrique: L'empire qui ne veut pas mourir. Seuil. p. 535. ISBN 9782757897751.
  8. ^ Kissita, Achille (2021). Comprendre l’histoire politique du Congo-Brazzaville, 1958-2020. Paris and Brazzaville: La Loupe and Paari. p. 232. ISBN 9782842201135.
  9. ^ "Congolese Forces Report the Killing Of Rebel Leader". The New York Times. 25 April 1973. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  10. ^ Cheikh Yérim Seck, "Yvonne Adélaïde Moundélé-Ngollo", Jeune Afrique, 7 September 2003 (in French).

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