Jean-Pierre Finant
Jean-Pierre Finant | |
|---|---|
Oriental Province | |
| In office 11 June 1960 – 11 October 1960 | |
| Succeeded by | Charles Badjoko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 April 1922 Mouvement National Congolais |
Jean-Pierre Finant (22 April 1922 – 13 February 1961) was a Congolese politician who served as the first President of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from June until October 1960.
Biography
Jean-Pierre Finant was born on 22 April 1922 in
Azande mother and a Belgian father. He undertook six years of primary and four years of middle education at the Ecole des Frères Maristes in Buta. After a one year training course at the Ecole Supérieure des Télécommunications in Léopoldville, he found work at the telecommunications service in Stanleyville. He held the post until 1960. He served as president of the Association du personnel des Télécommunications[1] and was a member of the Association du Personnel Indigene de la Colonie (APIC) labour union.[2] He was married and had five children,[1] including future singer Abeti Masikini.[3]
Political career
In 1959 Finant was elected to the council of the
Mouvement National Congolais (MNC). In January–February 1960 he attended the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference in Brussels as a member of the MNC-Lumumba delegation. In March, he was appointed to the Executive College for Orientale Province.[1]
In the
mutinied and the country plunged into disorder. During the crisis, he became increasingly loyal to the MNC and Lumumba, who was serving as Prime Minister. His fidelity to Lumumba remained strong even after the latter was removed from power.[1]
Following a defection of deputies from the MNC and their denunciation of Lumumba, a group of disgruntled soldiers in Stanleyville attempted to overthrow the pro-Lumumba provincial government.Bakwanga, South Kasai where he was tried before a tribunal.[7] He was found guilty and subsequently executed there on 13 February 1961[8] and buried alongside other executed political prisoners in a mass grave.[9]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g Verhaegen 1977, p. 141.
- ^ Vanderstraeten 1993, p. 513.
- ^ Baldé, Assanatou (8 May 2016). "Paris rend hommage à la grande diva congolaise Abéti Masikini". Afrik.com. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ Omasombo & Verhaegen 2005, p. 295.
- ^ Artigue 1961, p. 78.
- ^ a b Hoskyns 1965, p. 240.
- ^ Artigue 1961, p. 79.
- ^ Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 284.
- ^ "Lettre ouverte au gouvernement de RD Congo". Jeune Afrique (in French). 11 August 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
References
- Artigue, Pierre (1961). Qui sont les leaders congolais?. Carrefours Africains (in French). Vol. 3. Brussels: Éditions Europe-Afrique. OCLC 469948352.
- Hoskyns, Catherine (1965). The Congo Since Independence: January 1960 – December 1961. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 414961.
- Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2014). Bas-Uele : Pouvoirs locaux et économie agricole : héritages d'un passé brouillé (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren. ISBN 978-9-4916-1586-3.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - Omasombo, Jean Tshonda; Verhaegen, Benoît (2005). Patrice Lumumba, acteur politique : de la prison aux portes du pouvoir, juillet 1956-février 1960 (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 9782747563925.
- Vanderstraeten, Louis-François (1993). De la Force publique à l'Armée nationale congolaise: histoire d'une mutinerie, juillet 1960 (in French) (reprint ed.). Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique. ISBN 9782803101047.
- Verhaegen, B. (1977). "Finant (Jean Pierre ou Jean Emmanuel)". Biographie belge d'outre-mer (in French). Vol. VII. Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Me. OCLC 462126937.