Algeria: End in Captivity

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Moise Kapenda—or "beautiful Moses"—Tshombe took an estimated $20 million into his second exile, much of it collected through bribes and kickbacks. Behind he left a checkered legend. Older Congolese remember the prosperous times of his premiership; the young now revere Lumumba the leftist and revile his enemy. Whites still recall the man so cultured and well-spoken that many colonials considered him a "black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, it has become in some places on the continent a synonym for traitor.

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