Kananga
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 54 ′ S , 22 ° 24 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo | ||
| Kasaï-Central | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-KC | ||
| height | 600 m | ||
| Residents | 1,169,000 (January 1, 2015) | ||
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Kananga (until 1966 Luluaburg , Luluabourg , before 1933 Luluagare ) is a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It has about 1,169,000 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2015) and is the capital of the province of Kasaï-Central .
geography
Kananga is located in the south of the country on the banks of the Lulua River .
City structure
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history
The German Africa explorer Hermann von Wissmann founded the Luluaburg station on the banks of the Lulua River in 1885 .
From February 1926 Luluaburg was opened up through the air. The runway was created opposite the future Luluabourg station. On November 30, 1927, the train reached the Lulua. The BCK built a station at route km 701, at 600 meters above sea level. It was the hour of birth of a small town that quickly grew in importance. The settlement at the train station was named Lulua-Gare or Luluagare (French for: Lulua Bahnhof ) to distinguish it from the nearby town of Luluaburg (today Mikalayi ) around the mission station. Lulua-Gare stretches for around ten kilometers on the ridge along the road. The fight against erosion along the steep valleys required a lot of work, especially at the beginning.
After the state post and the cathedral moved from the old Luluaburg (or Luluabourg-État) to Luluagare, the name Mikalayi, which is related by the locals, was officially transferred to Luluagare and the name Luluaburg in 1933.
During the independence negotiations, a transfer of the capital from Léopoldville to the more centrally located Luluabourg was discussed. Since Luluabourg was in the breakaway province of South Kasai , this plan could not be implemented. In 1962 the province was recaptured, after which the city became the capital of the newly created western province of Kasai-Occidental .
In 1966 the city was renamed "Kananga" as part of the " Africanization " initiated by the dictator Mobutu .
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), soldiers from the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) killed at least 40 people in the municipality of Nganza between April 28 and 30, 2017.
economy
Diamonds and wheat are traded in the region . There are rich natural resources in the region.
sons and daughters of the town
- Étienne Tshisekedi (1932–2017), multiple Prime Minister of Zaire
- Gérard Mulumba Kalemba (1937–2020), Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Mweka
- Pierre Ndaye Mulamba (1948-2019), football player
- Bernard Emmanuel Kasanda Mulenga (* 1954), Bishop of Mbujimayi
- Marie Myriam (* 1957), French singer of Portuguese descent
- Junior Maximus (* 1983), heavyweight boxer
- Ilunga Makabu (* 1988), cruiserweight boxer
credentials
- ↑ cia.gov/the-world-factbook , The World Factbook of the CIA. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (October 4, 2010).
- ↑ Martin Kalulambi Pongo: être au Juba XXè siècle: identité chrétienne et ethnicité au Congo-Kinshasa. Karthala, Paris 1994, p. 28.
- ↑ Rupert Colville: DRC: Further mass graves and killings discovered in Kasais, says Zeid - See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21511&LangID=E#sthash. KPgezznQ.dpuf. OHCHR, April 19, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017 .
