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In three months and a week, from January 16 to April 23, 2020, five emeritus professors from the University of Kinshasa (Unikin) bowed out from the academic scene, almost anonymously, due to the constraints health due to coronavirus. No academic session, no anthem from the University of Kinshasa, no farewell song to companions, no eulogy, no shimmering gowns, no processions, no wreaths. They were emeritus professors, that is, professors who had reached the peak of their careers. After the defense of their doctoral thesis worked out with perseverance, they had to demonstrate their teaching skills for a period of six months. After at least four years of experience as Associate Professors, and the publication of at least two scientific articles and the writing of a course, they were promoted to Full Professors.To pass to the higher category of Ordinary Professors, it was necessary to accomplish again at least four years of seniority, and to have published at least one work or four scientific articles. Emeritus is granted to Professors who apply for it and who have completed at least twenty years of career. In addition, they are asked for four publications. However, they must not have a disciplinary record. The training of a counterpart is appreciated.
While retiring, the professor emeritus keeps forty-five hours of lessons. It is easy to understand that those who enter the emeritus are in their seventies and eighties. The first to leave the scene is Edouard Bongo Bongo, 77, a native of the Bas-fleuve at Kongo Central (3/14/1943 – 1/16/2020). He was followed by Manda Kizabi, 76, from Moba (1944-26 / 3/2020). The month of April saw three successive deaths: Emmanuel-Gustave Kintambu Mafuku, 82, from Mbanza-Ngungu (16/2/1938 – 16/4/2020), Raphaël Kalengayi Mbowa, 80, born in Mikalayi in Kasaï on 22/10/1940, and died in Brussels on 19/4/2020, and Jacques Simon Kazadi Nduba wa Dile, 84 years old, born in Mikalayi also on 12/23/1936 and died in Kinshasa on 23 / 4/2020.
The Faculty of Economics and Management has lost three emeritus professors. The other two are from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Jacques Simon Kazadi obtained his license in Commercial and Financial Sciences from the Lovanium University of Kinshasa and the higher education aggregation in July 1964. He was recruited as Assistant to the Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES ) in 1964. Three years later, he was confirmed as a qualified researcher in 1967.
Three years later, he obtained his doctorate in applied economics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was the first Congolese doctor in economics, and was promoted to Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Lovanium University in 1970. In 1971, he became Vice-Dean, and served as Director of IRES from 1971 to 1973.
From 1973 to 1974, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics. He is the first Congolese Dean. He became 2 Ordinary Professor in 1975, and acceded to the emeritus by decree n ° MINESU / CABMIN / 039/2004 of April 14, 2004.
He was part of many learned societies, notably the Council for the Development of Research in Social Sciences in Africa (Codestria) of which he was President of the Executive Committee from January 1973 to November 1976, and member of the Executive Committee until August 1979. He was Vice-President, then President of the Pan-African Institute for Development in Douala (1984). He has been a consultant to the International Labor Office (B.I.T.), the Economic Commission for Africa (C.E.A.) and the United Nations University. He has numerous publications, including: Problematic of the application of Smig (2004); Salary policy in the public service (2007); National private enterprise and modern management (2008).
In parallel to his academic career, he was from 1970 to 1975 Sectional President of the M.P.R. Kinshasa University Campus, from 1974 to 1977 member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Movement of the Revolution, from 1975 to 1977 Commissioner of the People and Vice-president of the economic and financial commission of the Legislative Council.
He was part of the Central Committee of the M.P.R. from October 1981 to January 1985. He was General Treasurer of the Party (January-April 1983). He was also a member of the tourist information office for the Lemba area and the Gombele district (Righini). At the National Sovereign Conference (1990-1991), he was appointed as President of the Economic and Financial Commission. Director of companies and Commissioner-Auditor of banks, he fulfilled at the end of his life the functions of Treasurer of the Collective of Distinguished Professors. He leaves a widow and four children, three boys and a girl.
Emmanuel Gustave Kintambu Mafuku, affectionately called by his colleagues, his relatives and his students “Old Kitos”, began his university studies in Spain where he obtained his license at the Universidad de Granada in 1970. He was the only black during all his training. Four years later, he defended his doctoral thesis in Economic and Commercial Sciences at the University of Barcelona in May 1974. He became a Professor in 1975 and acquired the emeritus by ministerial decree n ° 016 / MINESURS / CAB.MIN / BCL / CD / WK / 2013 of 04 February 2013. He has given courses at several universities and higher education institutes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Africa and in other countries of the world.
At the University of Kinshasa, he taught mathematics, statistics, econometrics and microeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, where he was also twice Dean. He is one of the pioneers of Kongo University, where he not only taught economics, but also served as academic secretary. He was visiting professor at the Protestant University of Congo, at William Booth University and at the Gombe Higher Institute of Commerce.
In Africa, he taught in Brazzaville at Marien Ngouabi University, in Kigali at the National University of Rwanda and at the Free University of Kigali, in Libreville at Omar Bongo University. He also taught in Mexico at El Colegio in Mexico. Professor Kintambu also practiced extramural. He was one of the advisers to the President of the Republic of Zaire and also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Congolese Office of Control, in acronym O.C.C. But his end of life was marked by almost 3 twelve years of a long and painful illness until his last breath.
He leaves a widow and five children, including three boys and two girls. As early as 1966, Edouard Bongo Bongo flew to Konrad Adenauer’s country to do his university studies at the University of Cologne. He obtained his license in Economics in 1971. Immediately he enrolled at the University of Bonn and was proclaimed Doctor of Economics five years later in 1976. On his return to the country, he was appointed Associate Professor in 1978, Full Professor in 1985, Ordinary Professor in 2006, and Professor Emeritus by Ministerial Decree No. 272 / MINESU / CAB.MIN / TLL / EEM / 2019 of 31/12/2019. Service number 7.581.055Z was Vice-Dean of Education from 2006 to 2009 at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Kinshasa, where he was a full-time teacher.
He was Visiting Professor in several higher education establishments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including: The Free University of Kinshasa (ULK), the National Pedagogical University (UPN), the University of Lubumbashi (UNILU), l ‘Evangelical University in Africa of Bukavu, Kongo University (UK) and Kasa-Vubu University (UKV). He leaves a widow and seven children.
After his proclamation in 1968 as a medical doctor at Lovanium University in Kinshasa, Raphaël Kalengayi Mbowa went to Belgium. He applied for the degree of specialist in pathological anatomy at the Dutch-speaking Catholic University of Louvain (1968-1972). But he also acquired the degree of graduate in Medical Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain Francophone (1969-1972).
During his stay in Belgium, he successively worked as a clinical assistant in pathological anatomy (1968-1972), then as a research assistant (1972-1976) at the Dutch-speaking Catholic University of Louvain. In 1976, the same university proclaimed him Agrégé of Higher Education in Medicine after the defense of his thesis on liver cancer and aflatoxins, and his public lesson on oncofetal proteins.
At the National University of Zaire (UNAZA), he holds the registration number 7,860,569H, and was appointed in 1974 Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine. In 1976, he was promoted to Full Professor of Pathological Anatomy and Forensic Medicine in the same Faculty. In 1978, he was asked to become Professor of Histopathology and Legal Medicine at the Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales (ISTM) in Kinshasa. He was also Visiting Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Lubumbashi (1980-1982).
In 1984, he assumed the functions of Director General of the University Clinics of Kinshasa and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Kinshasa.
Subsequently, he was promoted to Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Kinshasa, and Rector of the University of Mbuji-Mayi. His field of research focused on human oncology, the general and special pathology of tropical parasitoses. Author of two theses, he has produced several articles in specialized journals and in collective works. He actively participated in scientific congresses where he was invited. He has made several scientific and study trips to 4 Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the United States of America.
He was a member of six British, American, African and Congolese learned societies. He was notably co-founding president of the African Society of Toxicology, co-founding president of the Congolese Society of clinical biology. He was also a member of the Technical and Scientific Executive Secretariat of the U.A. for the writing of a book on cancer in Africa, member of the Group of the International Center for Research on Cancer established by the World Health Organization to study cancer in children in DRC He was also head of the O.M.S. for research on the pathological anatomy of African trypanosomiasis.
He was invited in a personal capacity by the Secretary General of the U.A. to be part of the African Academy of Sciences. Professor Emeritus Manda Kizabi, number 7.525.332K, was a Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain.
He taught statistics courses at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, in several higher educational institutes and in Burundi. He was an educational supervisor at the Permanent Studies Commission of the Ministry of Higher and University Education.
He has led several university teaching seminars on the management of assessments, university statistics and docimology. He was head of the Academic Assessment Unit. He is the author of two books: University pedagogy: experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, published in October 2017, and Special questions of statistics applied in psychology and educational sciences, published in November 2017.He was promoted to Professor Emeritus by Ministerial Order No. 272 / MINESU / CABMIN / TLL / EEM / 2019 of 31/12/2019. His participation in the Estates General of Education in 1995 under the guise of UNESCO, of which he was a consultant, facilitated his appointment as Deputy Permanent Delegate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Paris. It is in this context that he came on a mission to Kinshasa for the works of the chronogram of the process going towards the inscription of rumba in the heritage of humanity. He fell on the forehead on March 26, 2020 as a result of the coronavirus.
His superior Atoki Ileka, ambassador of the DRC in Paris, describes him as “a tireless worker whose talent and intelligence command my respect and that of all his colleagues”. Our five emeritus professors will have fulfilled their missions to the end: teaching, research and service to the nation. They were “vertebrates” who fought ease and idleness. They are the antithesis of the “Chance eloko mpamba” generation. We wanted to pay tribute to them for the work accomplished in conditions that were not always easy, and to perpetuate their memory.
May they rest in peace !
Jean-Marie Mutamba Makombo
Professor Emeritus / University of Kinshasa
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The government, through the ministry of health, proceeds to release the patients retained in public hospitals for non-payment of bills.Symbolically, Doctor Eteni Longondo released this Saturday May 9, 2020 the people who were stranded at the general reference hospital of Kinshasa (ex Maman Yemo).
According to the Minister of Health, this operation concerns all the hospitals of the country and the patients retained in all the medical services for lack of financial means.
“The government, on the orders of the President of the Republic, had decided to release all the sick, not only the children and women who gave birth, but all the sick who were unable to pay their bills. “today we have come to free all the patients here at Maman Yemo hospital and it is the government that will take care of all these bills. All the patients who are here because of non-payment of the bills are released and can already go to their place, “he said.
At the same time, Dr Longondo asked all the managing physicians of the hospitals to send him the invoices which are not honored by their patients.
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In three months and a week, from January 16 to April 23, 2020, five emeritus professors from the University of Kinshasa (Unikin) bowed out from the academic scene, almost anonymously, due to the constraints health due to coronavirus. No academic session, no anthem from the University of Kinshasa, no farewell song to companions, no eulogy, no shimmering gowns, no processions, no wreaths. They were emeritus professors, that is, professors who had reached the peak of their careers. After the defense of their doctoral thesis worked out with perseverance, they had to demonstrate their teaching skills for a period of six months. After at least four years of experience as Associate Professors, and the publication of at least two scientific articles and the writing of a course, they were promoted to Full Professors.
This involves gradual free primary and secondary education, scholarships and financial assistance for university students, guaranteed minimum wages of $ 1000 per month, and new curricula.
Thank you to Bourgoumestre for the welcome at the town hall and to Master Mike for the time to teach us to play karate. Long live the Congolese youth!
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