Sylvestre Mudingayi
{{Short description|Congolese politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Sylvestre Kongolo Mudingayi
|image = {{CSS image crop|Image = Yitzhak Navon and Sylvestre Mudingayi.jpg|bSize = 950|cWidth = 250|cHeight = 275|oTop = 35|oLeft = 590|Location= center|alt= Sylvestre Mudingayi in Israel, August 1966}}
|caption = Sylvestre Mudingayi in Israel, August 1966
|office = President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
|president =
|deputy =
|term_start = September 1965
|term_end = 24 June 1967
|predecessor = Isaac Kalonji
|successor = position abolished{{efn|The Senate was permanently dissolved and was not reinstated until 2003 under the chairmanship of Pierre Marini Bodho.}}
|birth_date = 11 November 1912
|birth_place = Lusambo, Kasai Province, Belgian Congo
|death_date = 23 December 1983
|death_place = Kinshasa
|party = Parti National du Progrès
Front Démocratique Congolais
}}
Sylvestre Mudingayi (11 November 1912 – 23 December 1983) was a Congolese politician who served as the President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from October 1965 until June 1967.
== Biography ==
Sylvestre Mudingayi was born on 11 November 1912 in Lusambo, Kasai Province, Belgian Congo{{sfn|CRISP|1959|loc=paragraph 64}} to a Luba family.{{sfn|Makombo|1998|p=460}} In 1932 he became a chief clerk at the Banque du Congo Belge. He was a member of the évolué social class.{{sfn|Makombo|1998|p=314}} In 1945 he chaired the Cercle d'Agrément Prince Léopold III de Lusambo.{{sfn|Tousignant|2009|p=98}}
= Political career =
Mudingayi was classified by Christian missionaries as a "socialist" due to his advocacy for the establishment of secular schools.{{sfn|CRISP|1959|loc=paragraph 64}} In 1953 he traveled to Belgium where he was received by the Liberal Party.{{sfn|Makombo|1998|p=226}} In March 1959 he was appointed by the Governor-General of the Congo to serve on the consultative Conseil de Gouvernement.{{sfn|Artigue|1960|p=84}} Mudingayi later became president of the Kasai chapter of the Parti National du Progrès (PNP). He founded and became editor of the leftist anti-clericalist newspaper La Lumière, a bimonthly publication of the party.{{sfn|CRISP|1959|loc=paragraph 64}}
Mudingayi participated in the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference of 1960 that earned the Congo's independence.{{sfn|House Committee on Foreign Affairs|1960|p=42}} While campaigning for the PNP in the Luputa region of Kasai in March for the upcoming elections, he was assaulted by opposing political activists.{{sfn|Wa Tshibangu|1976|p=145}} His injuries were severe and he was forced to make a near-total withdrawal from politics.{{sfn|House Committee on Foreign Affairs|1960|p=42}}
In September 1965 Mudingayi was elected President of the Senate as a member of the Front Démocratique Congolais (FDC) in a surprise victory over the incumbent, Isaac Kalonji, 57 votes to 54.{{sfn|African World|1967|p=xxiii}} He served until the enactment of a new constitution on 24 June 1967.{{sfn|Senat|2010|p=2}}
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- {{cite journal| title = L'affaire Kalonji et les problèmes du Kasai| journal = Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP| issue = 31| pages = 9–18| publisher = Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques| date = 1959| language = fr| url = https://www.cairn.info/revue-courrier-hebdomadaire-du-crisp-1959-31-page-9.htm| doi = 10.3917/cris.031.0009| ref = {{harvid|CRISP|1959}}}}
- {{cite book| last= Artigue |first= Pierre |title = Qui sont les leaders congolais?| publisher = Éditions Europe-Afrique| date = 1960| language = fr| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hywUAAAAIAAJ}}
- {{cite web| url = http://www.senat.cd/discours/discours_cinquantenaire_senat_juin_2010.pdf| title = Discours Prononce par le President du Senat a L'Occasion de la Commemoration du Cinquantenaire de la Creation du Senat de la Republique Democratique du Congo| date = 23 June 2010| location = Kinshasa| publisher = Senat de la Republique Democratique du Congo| access-date = 5 November 2017| language = fr| ref = {{harvid|Senat|2010}}}}
- {{cite book| last = Makombo| first = Mutamba| title = Du Congo belge au Congo indépendant, 1940-1960: émergence des "évolués" et genèse du nationalisme| publisher = Institut de formation et d'études politiques| date = 1998| location= Kinshasa| oclc = 52312642| language = fr| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FN0wAQAAIAAJ}}
- {{cite book| last = Wa Tshibangu| first = Tshimanga | title = Histoire du Zaïre| publisher = Éditions du Ceruki| date = 1976| language = fr| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_AsNAQAAIAAJ| oclc = 652145768}}
- {{cite book| last = Tousignant| first = Nathalie| title = Le manifeste Conscience africaine (1956): élites congolaises et société coloniale : regards croisés| publisher = Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis| date = 2009| language = fr| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=x1IqAQAAIAAJ| isbn = 9782802801900}}
- {{cite journal| title = Mr. Tshombe Dismissed : Mr. Kimba Forms New Government| journal = African World| publisher = African Publications Limited| location = London| date = 1967| orig-year = 1965| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7GrjAAAAMAAJ| oclc = 12032018| ref = {{harvid|African World|1967}}}}
- {{cite book| author = United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs| title = Staff Memorandum on the Republic of the Congo| publisher = United States Government Publishing Office| date = 1960| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4Zbog7JHAtwC| ref = {{harvid|House Committee on Foreign Affairs|1960}}}}
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Category:Year of death missing
Category:People of the Congo Crisis
Category:Presidents of the Senate (Democratic Republic of the Congo)