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Ernest Wamba dia Wamba was born on 1942 in Bas-Congo, Belgian Congo (Now Congo-Kinshasa), is an African political philosopher (1942–2020). Discover Ernest Wamba dia Wamba's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Born 1942
Birthday 1942
Birthplace Bas-Congo, Belgian Congo (Now Congo-Kinshasa)
Date of death 15 July, 2020
Died Place Mbanza-Ngungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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1980

In 1980, he accepted a position as Professor of History at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

1981

In 1981, while visiting his parents' village in Zaire, he was arrested by the government of Mobutu Sese-Seko for possessing a paper he had authored that was deemed 'subversive', and was detained for one year.

He continued his role as a prominent figure in both academia and political circles in Africa.

He is the former president of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) as well as the founder and president of the philosophy club at the University of Dar es Salaam.

He was an expert in the Palaver (politics) and other indigenous forms of African democracy.

1990

He participated in the Sovereign National Conference, held from 1990 through 1992 in Zaire.

1997

In 1997 he co-authored with Jacques Depelchin, the African Declaration Against Genocide.

In December 1997, Wamba was named a recipient of the Dutch Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development.

The announcement of the award cited his "scholarly contribution to the development of African philosophy and for sparking off the philosophical debate on social and political themes in Africa."

At this time he also worked closely with Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere to end the Burundi Civil War.

At the beginning of the Second Congo War against the government of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Wamba was unanimously elected head of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD), which was backed by Uganda and Rwanda and based in the town of Goma.

1999

However, the RCD gradually split from November 1998 until 16 May 1999, as it became clear that Rwanda and its supporters' goals were limited to replacement of Kabila.

Several attempts were made on Wamba's life during this period, coinciding with attempts to destroy his political power in the RCD.

On 16 May 1999, Émile Ilunga was named the new head of the RCD after manoeuvring by Rwanda, and Wamba fled to the Ugandan-controlled town of Kisangani.

The faction of the RCD he maintained control of was variously known as the Movement for Liberation (RCD-ML), RCD-Kisangani, or RCD-Wamba.

The main faction is sometimes referred to as RCD-Goma.

The two factions shortly engaged in fierce battles in Kisangani, following which Wamba retreated to Bunia in the Ituri region of the northeastern DRC.

Wamba was faced with an internal revolt by Mbusa Nyamwisi, leading to another split in his party's faction.

His organization remained known as the RCD-Kisangani (RCD-K), while the Nyamwisi-led group was known as the RCD-ML.

2001

In 2001, Wamba denounced a Ugandan proposal to unite the RCD-K, RCD-ML and Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) as an unwelcome foreign imposition.

The further disintegration of the RCD-K to the point it was without any significant military force may have been the result of Ugandan withdrawal of its support.

This action, which took place as the Ituri conflict continued escalating, was seen by some members of the Lendu ethnic group as a support against what they saw as the pro-Hema bias of Uganda.

Following the Inter-Congolese Dialogue that ended the war, Wamba became a prominent member of the new government.

He spoke extensively on what was needed for the DRC to make a successful transition to a functioning democracy.

He continued to be politically involved and to write, and was a noted political theorist widely respected for, in particular, his innovative use of the work of the African-born Parisian philosopher Alain Badiou, whom he introduced to contemporary African political thought.

Scholars of Africana like Jacques Depelchin, Michael Neocosmos and Raj Patel have taken up Wamba's use of Badiou's work.

2008

A May 2008 article authored by Jacques Depelchin warned that there were new threats to assassinate Wamba.

In the last years of his life, Wamba remained politically active, running reading groups with young activists in Kinshasha and engaging popular organisations across the continent, including Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa.

2020

Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (1942 – July 15, 2020) was a prominent Congolese academic and political theorist who became a commander of the Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy during the Second Congo War.

Wamba dia Wamba was born in Sundi-Lutete, Bas-Congo Province.

He was raised in Swedish mission schools and grew into adulthood in the period when the prophetism of Simon Kimbangu and the political agitation for independence by the Association des Bakongo (ABAKO) was reaching its peak.

When ABAKO split, he favoured the faction of Daniel Kanza.

Upon graduation from secondary school, he was one of three students awarded scholarships by the African-American Institute to study in the United States.

He went to Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where Wamba wrote his honors dissertation on the philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre.

He later went on to graduate studies at Claremont before teaching at Brandeis University, where he was associated with Peter F. Drucker.

He went on to teach at Harvard University.

During his period in the U.S., Wamba dia Wamba married an African-American woman and was involved in the Civil Rights Movement through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Once the period of decolonization began in Africa, he joined the supporting committees of various US-based pan-Africanist movements.

Wamba dia Wamba died on July 15, 2020, in a hospital in Kinshasa where he had been hospitalized for multiple days.

The cause of death has been reported as an asthma attack.