Cyrille Adoula
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Born | 13 September 1921 Mouvement National Congolais (1958–1959)Mouvement National Congolais-Kalonji (1959–1964) Rassemblement des démocrates congolaise (1964) |
Cyrille Adoula (13 September 1921 – 24 May 1978) was a Congolese trade unionist and politician. He was the prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, from 2 August 1961 until 30 June 1964.
Early life and education
Cyrille Adoula was born to middle-class
Career
In 1954, Adoula joined the
Entry into national politics, 1958-1960
In October 1958 a group of Léopoldville
With the independence of the
The Congo fell into disorder shortly after independence, as the army's mutiny and the secession of the
As prime minister, 1961-1964
In early 1961, the United States began to push for an Adoula-led government. United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk directed CIA agents to ensure that Adoula would become the next Congolese prime minister.[15] The CIA acted in concert with other Western intelligence agencies in bribing Congolese parliamentarians to support Adoula.[7] On 1 August Adoula was appointed formateur of a new government by Kasa-Vubu. The following day he presented his government to Parliament with himself as Prime Minister. Like Lumumba had before him, Adoula also gave himself responsibility over the national defence portfolio.[16] The government was delivered a vote of confidence in the Chamber, 121 votes to none with one abstention, and the Senate voiced its support via acclamation.[17]
Adoula managed to balance his cabinet with many former Lumumba supporters.[8] Antoine Gizenga became deputy prime minister.[18] Still, as his tenure progressed, Adoula faced a growing amount of opposition from the nationalist elements of MNC-Lumumba and Gizenga's faction of the Parti Solidaire Africain.[19] He also never garnered much popular support across the country.[20] As 1961 drew to a close, several Lumumba sympathisers withdrew from Adoula's government and Gizenga retired to Stanleyville.[21] Gizenga's persisting counter-government in the east represented the first major challenge to Adoula's authority.[19] In January 1962, Adoula was able to successfully arrest Gizenga. He subsequently removed the remaining Lumumba supporters from his government, thereby excluding the largest political force in the country from power.[21]
During his
Foreign policy
On an international level, Adoula pursued a policy of neutrality.
Adoula denounced
Under Adoula, the Congo joined the Pan-African Freedom Movement for East and Central Africa.[31] He agreed to supply funds to various liberation movements in southern Africa and arranged for an office building dubbed the "House of African Nationalists" to be opened in Léopoldville for their use.[32] Despite this, the funds never proved forthcoming and the liberation movements struggled with logistics and organisation.[33]
Attempted post-secession reconciliation and communist rebellion
Following the defeat of Katanga, Adoula organised a new "Government of Reconciliation" in April 1963.[34]
From Gizenga's arrest in early 1962 until Parliament's adjournment in September 1963, most of the dissent Adoula faced from the left came in the form of obstructionist activities in the legislative process. In October the radical Comité National de Libération (CNL) formed in Brazzaville with the goal of overthrowing Adoula's government. By December a CNL-instigated revolt had emerged in Kwilu Province.[35] The larger Simba rebellion of 1964 saw much of the eastern Congo overrun by leftist guerrilla forces.[8] During the run-up to new elections in the summer, three new political coalitions in the country emerged. One of these was the Rassemblement des démocrates congolaise (RADECO), which consisted of 50 small organisations led by Jacques Massa.[36] Centrist in ideology, it failed to amass much popular support.[37] Adoula was elected as its president on 14 June.[36] Still unable to contain the leftist insurrections, Adoula was forced by Kasa-Vubu to resign.[8] He then voluntarily left the country.[38]
Later life, 1965-1978
In a New Year's message at the beginning of 1965, Prime Minister
In November 1965, Adoula returned to the Congo after Mobutu had seized power. He was accommodating of Mobutu's new regime and served as the Congolese
Personal life, beliefs and death
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In 1978 Adoula suffered a heart attack and went to Lausanne, Switzerland for treatment.[14] He succumbed to an illness and died there on 24 May 1978.[8]
Adoula was an
"Being a Socialist, I am for the transformation of the present society into one benefiting the entire collectivity. And for this, I conceive the collectivization of the means of production and the lower echelon workers of the latter. In order to attain this goal, I only see one means: the struggle of the classes, the permanent class struggle until this result is obtained."
Legacy
In most written histories Adoula is portrayed as a weak, ineffective prime minister and a lackey of the United States government.[5]
Notes
- ^ Council for Labour and Native Social Security
- ^ General Federation of Belgian Labour
- ^ Party of National Unity
- ^ According to the British Survey, Adoula was only co-opted as a senator on a PUNA ticket due to his friendship with Jean Bolikango, leader of PUNA and a popular figure among the Bangala in Équateur Province.[10] Thomas Kanza wrote that the co-optation was achieved "with difficulty".[11]
References
- ^ Sandiford 2008, p. 18.
- ^ Segal 1962, p. 166.
- ^ a b c Akyeampong & Gates 2012, p. 95.
- ^ a b LaFontaine 1986, p. 220.
- ^ a b Klieman 2008, p. 179.
- ^ Hoskyns 1965, p. 27.
- ^ a b Waters 2009, p. 2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Akyeampong & Gates 2012, p. 96.
- ^ Area Handbook 1962, p. 386.
- ^ British Survey. Vol. 178–213. British Society for International Understanding. 1964. p. 3. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ a b Kanza 1994, p. 168.
- ^ Passemiers 2019, p. 58.
- ^ Kanza 1994, p. 103.
- ^ a b Lentz 2014, p. 861.
- ^ Paterson 1989, p. 263.
- ^ Hoskyns 1965, p. 377.
- ^ Hoskyns 1965, p. 379.
- ^ Schmidt 2013, p. 69.
- ^ a b Young 1965, p. 345.
- ^ Gibbs 1991, p. 147.
- ^ a b Schmidt 2013, pp. 69–70.
- ^ Young 1965, pp. 547–548.
- ^ "Congo-Zaïre: l'empire du crime permanent, Adoula, l'homme du Conclave de Lovanium" (in French). Le Phare. 27 September 2013. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
- ^ Oron 1961, p. 63.
- ^ Passemiers 2019, pp. 83–84.
- ^ Mountz 2014, p. 50.
- ^ Marcum, John (1969). The Angolan Revolution, Vol. I: The Anatomy of an Explosion (1950-1962). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (Cambridge). p. 65.
- ^ Guimaraes 2001, pp. 54, 63.
- ^ Mountz 2014, p. 153.
- ^ Guimaraes 2001, p. 71.
- ^ Passemiers 2019, p. 85.
- ^ Passemiers 2019, pp. 86, 89.
- ^ Passemiers 2019, p. 91.
- ^ O'Ballance 1999, p. 65.
- ^ Young 2015, p. 345.
- ^ a b O'Ballance 1999, p. 68.
- ^ Tshombe 1967, p. 20.
- ^ Waters 2009, p. 3.
- ^ O'Ballance 1999, p. 85.
- ^ "Political Appointments: Government Changes CONGO (DR)". Africa Research Bulletin. 1970. p. 1952. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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