CONAKAT

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CONAKAT delegates at the first session of the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference. Seated in the front, center, is Moïse Tshombe.

The Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga, or CONAKAT, was one of the three main political parties in the Belgian Congo and was led by the pro-Western regionalist Moïse Tshombe and his interior minister, Godefroid Munongo.

The party was started in the 1950s by Tshombe and Munongo. The party believed that the mineral riches of Katanga should be exclusively for the "authentic" ethnic Katangese.^[1]

History

The Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga was formed in November 1958 in response to a developing sociopolitical situation in Katanga Province, Belgian Congo. At the time, immigrants from other parts of the Congo, notably Lulua and Baluba people of Kasai Province, made up 38% of Katanga's population. The "authentic Katangese" referred to them disparagingly as "strangers".^[2]

Citations

^ The Congo from Leopold to Kabila, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, 2002, ISBN 1-84277-053-5, accessed February 2009
^ Heraclides 2012, p. 60

References

Heraclides, Alexis (2012). The Self-determination of Minorities in International Politics. Routledge. ISBN 9781136290268. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[1] The Congo from Leopold to Kabila, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, 2002, ISBN 1-84277-053-5, accessed February 2009

[Heraclides60-2] Heraclides 2012, p. 60

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