Rumble in the jungle

A review of the flag of Zaire, sold by Amazon. Yes, they sell the flag of Zaire, LOL.

Since I recently reviewed a book containing a lenghty interview with a certain Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, I might as well also comment this peculiar-looking product. Yes, this is the flag used by Mobutu's regime, during the period when Congo-Kinshasa was known as Zaire. Note the Pan-Africanist colors. This flag was part and parcel of Mobutu's campaign for "authenticity" in matters Afro-cultural. Weirdly, the third party vendor selling the Zaire flag calls itself "FindingKing". A co-incidence? Or an in-house joke? Don King was the boxing promotor who set up the "rumble in the jungle" between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa! Mobutu himself was overthrown in 1997 during another rumble, and the new government naturally changed the national flag, turning Mobutu's design into an odd memento. Except in the Amazon jungle, where everything is on sale...