Abstract
Money and power games in Zaïre : the «bindomania» and the twilight of the Second republic. The case of the Bindo promotion and other «promotions» private placing offices existing in 1990-1991 reveals the whole Zaïre society in crisis. The phenomenon of inflation and illicit trading (currency, precious stones and so on), conflicts within the elite, head of State Mobutu’s manipulations, the nature of urban economy and above all popular fantasy. This promotion system has been a giant trap which allowed the army and the power to overcome meanwhile they puzzled people by rumours and fears and by burgling absolutely all the resources of the Zaïre population.
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