Kwilu (Province)
| Kwilu | |
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| country |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Provincial capital | Bandundu |
| National language | Kikongo |
| surface | 78,219 km² |
| population | 5,490,000 (2015) |
| Population density | 69.9 |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-KL |
Kwilu is a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The capital of Kwilu is Bandundu . Kwilu's population is estimated at around 5.5 million in 2015.
geography
Kwilu is located in the western center of the country and borders in the north on the province of Mai-Ndombe , in the east on Kasaï , in the south on Kwango and in the far west on the city province of Kinshasa .
history
The province of Kwilu was founded in 1962. From 1964, however, it was administered by the state government in Kinshasa after a May-May uprising broke out here under Pierre Mulele in 1963 . From January 1964, the province was majority in the hands of the rebels, only in June 1965 did it come under government control again. On January 18, 1966, a provincial government was set up again, but in the same year the provinces of Kwilu, Kwango and Mai-Ndombe were united to form the province of Bandundu .
During the First Congo War , Kikwit was captured by the rebels on April 30, 1997 on their advance into Kinshasa .
According to the administrative reallocation of the country, which was provided for in the constitution of 2005, the province of Bandundu was to be divided up and Kwilu to receive provincial status and, as one of 26 provinces, to have its own administration and its own regional parliament. In January 2011, this reform was canceled by President Joseph Kabila through a controversial constitutional amendment . However, the reorganization was implemented in 2015 and Kwilu was given the status of province again.
Heads of government
president
- Norbert Leta (September 8, 1962 - January 18, 1964)
- Pierre Mulele (January 1964 - November 1964)
governor
- Henri-Désiré Takizala (January 18, 1966 - April 25, 1966)
Administrative division
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Cities
Territories
- Bagata
- Bulungu-Kikwit
- Gungu
- Idiofa
- Masi-Manimba
population
The most important peoples are the Bayanzi , Bahuana (Bahoni) and Bainbala .
Transport and infrastructure
The eponymous river Kwilu is navigable to Kikwit. Kikwit has an airport. Since 2010, the N1 trunk road has been restored on the 560 km long section from Kikwit to Kinshasa , so that there is good connection to the capital.
A hydropower plant with a capacity of 9.3 megawatts should be completed in 2013 and supply the district with electricity.
economy
The province's population is predominantly agricultural. Products such as palm oil , potatoes, corn, cassava , beans, vegetables and fruits are in demand from the megacity of Kinshasa. The province is also a hub for contraband from Angola.
literature
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Leo Frobenius : Ethnographic notes from the years 1905–1906. Volume 1: Peoples on the Kwilu and lower Kasai (= studies on cultural studies. 80). Edited and edited by Hildegard Klein. Steiner, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-515-04271-7 .
- digitized 2008: University of California
- Clément Molo Mumvwela: Le développement local au Kwango-Kwilu (RD Congo) (= European university publications . Series 29: Social economy. Volume 18). Lang, Bern a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-03910-397-0 (also: Rome, Pontificia University Gregoriana, dissertation, 2004).
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal Officiel de la République Démocratique du Congo: Loi organique No 15/006 du 25 mars 2015 portant fixation des limites des provinces et celles de la ville de Kinshasa , accessed on May 2, 2020, (French)
- ^ Congo (Dem. Rep.): Provinces & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
- ^ Democratic Republic of the Congo. ( Memento from February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) AZNet
- ↑ Kabila secures the next election victory . taz.de; Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ E. Torday: Notes on the Natives of the Kwilu, Congo Free State. In: Man , Vol. 5, 1905, pp. 135-138. Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; JSTOR 2788003
- ↑ Hilfsverein Elikia-CONGO eV (ed.): Elikia-CONGO . Visit 2017.
- ↑ The asphalt lights up. How a paved road changes life in the Congo . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , November 20, 2011, p. 11.
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