The Congolese Politician, Ethnic Groups and Collective Representations of the State’s Power
The aim of this text is to show how the concept of ethnic groups has been used as a tool in the recent political life in Congo-Brazzaville. Within nearly fifty years of history, the author describes how the ethnic group (Ngala in the North, Koongo in the South) becomes a pretext for national union or disunity. As for the population, they suffer in their flesh from the exactions committed in the name of this fool’s deal under a so-called democratic system. In such a way that the Congolese who have joined the poorest populations of the world since the recent civil wars, nearly regret the dictatorship which provided them relative peace. Tragic resignation, which also proves in another way that the people’s ethnopolitism is not the politician’s ethnopolitism, at least for the moment.