Photographer: Unknown (Associated Press).
Title: untitled (Parade Léopoldville 1965 12 02).
Date: 1965.
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 18,1 x 23,9 cm.
Condition: very good.
Reference: UNAPVI0316/1.
Provenance: Coll. Stéphane Bertrand, Tervuren (B).
Extra: original AP telex caption, AP stamp, archive number and English text on the verso side.
Mobutu saluting during a parade through the streets of Léopoldville. Women clap their hands as he passes during a parade through the streets of Léopoldville. Original press photo of a parade on 2 December 1965, only eight days after the takeover of power by Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga.