Anicet Kashamura
{{Short description|Congolese politician (1928– 2004)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Anicet Kashamura
|image =
|caption = Anicet Kashamura at the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference in 1960
|president = Joseph Kasa-Vubu
|primeminister = Patrice Lumumba
|office = Minister of Information of the Republic of the Congo
|term_start = 24 June 1960
|term_end = 5 September 1960
|successor= Jean Bolikango
|birth_name =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1928|12|17|df=y}}
|birth_place = Kalehe, Kivu Province, Belgian Congo
|death_date = {{death date and age|2004|8|18|1928|12|17|df=y}}
|death_place =
|party = Centre du Regroupement Africain
|spouse =
|children =
|alma_mater =
}}
Anicet Kashamura (17 December 1928 – 18 August 2004) was a Congolese politician.
Biography
= Early Life and Career =
Anicet Kashamura was born in 1928 in the locality of Kalehe in Kivu Province, Belgian Congo. From 1948 to 1956 he worked as an accountant for different agencies of the colonial administration. Afterwards he became a journalist and entered politics.{{sfn|Sík|1966|p=300}} In 1958 he co-founded the Centre du Regroupement Africain (CEREA) party. Following Congolese independence in 1960, Kashamura became Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's minister of information, until himself and Lumumba were dismissed by President Joseph Kasa-Vubu on 5 September.{{sfn|Kisangani|2016|p=339}}
After Laurent-Désiré Kabila seized power in the Congo in May 1997, Kashamura was appointed chairman of a commission charged with drafting a new constitution for the country.{{sfn|Kisangani|2016|p=339}}
= Death =
He died on 18 August 2004.{{sfn|CEDAF|2004|p=389}}
Citations
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References
- {{cite book| title = Cahiers africains| publisher = Centre d'étude et de documentation africaines| date = 2004| location = Belgium| language = French| volume = 65-70| isbn = 9782747563918| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8u4sAQAAIAAJ| ref = {{harvid|CEDAF|2004}}}}
- {{cite book| last = Kisangani| first = Emizet Francois | title = Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo| publisher = Rowman & Littlefield| edition = 4| date = 2016| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sj9mDQAAQBAJ| isbn = 9781442273160}}
- {{cite book| last = Sík| first = Endre| title = The History of Black Africa| publisher = Akadémiai Kiadó| volume = 4| edition = seventh| date = 1966| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uLFAAAAAYAAJ}}
{{Lumumba Government}}
{{Authority control}}
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Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo journalists
Category:Lumumba Government members
Category:People from South Kivu
Category:People of the Congo Crisis
Category:Governors of Kivu Province
Category:20th-century journalists
Category:21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
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