Guy Tillim

Leopold and Mobutu series 12

Left: The Congo Star which adorned the Congolese flag during the Leopold era, photographed at the Military Museum in Brussels, January 2004. When Laurent Kabila displaced Mobutu Sese Seko during the first Congo War of 1996, he replaced the Zairean flag with a banner featuring the old Congo Star
Right: Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila after his army takes the city, 1997





diptych: paper size 61 x 156cm; image size 47.5 x 73cm each
archival pigment ink on 300g cotton paper
edition of 5 + 2 AP


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