Raphael Batshikama

{{Short description|Congolese politician}}

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| birth_place = Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Raphael Batshikama was a Congolese politician.{{Cite book |last=Merriam |first=p alan |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.110664 |title=Congo Background Of Conflict |date=1961}}{{Cite web |title=Politics in the Congo : decolonization and independence {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/307971 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}} He was appointed as the first Secretary of State for the Interior of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under Lumumba Government that ran from 24 June until 12 September 1960 under the leadership of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. He was the member of ABAKO.

File:First Congolese government.jpg (left center) with his first government including Raphael Batshikama outside the Palais de la Nation soon after swearing-in ceremony]].