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By Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com Guide to African History since 2001

It's All in How You See Yourself...

Monday September 22, 2008
"If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught."

Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire (25 Nov 1965 to 16 May 1997) as quoted in Isaac Mowoe's The Performance of Soldiers as Governors, 1980.

"All powerful warrior who because of his endurance and desire for success will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake.

Approxamte translation of the name Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Nanga (the name adopted by Joseph Désiré Mobutu in 1972).

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